| Moreover, the traffic into Potosi necessarily included huge quantities of food and drink produced all over the altiplano and in the lowlands on either side. |
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| It was like that under the Spanish, when tens of thousands of Quechua and Aymara died working the great silver mountain at Potosi to fund the Spanish empire. |
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| A 1603 report stated that of 58,800 Indians working at Potosi, 5100 were mitayos, or less than one in ten. |
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| The Flammulated Owl was also reported from El Potosi by Contreras-Balderas. |
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| Potosi became the second largest city, and the site of the first mint, in the Americas. |
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| Starting in the 1540s a growing amount of silver was shipped to Europe from mines in Mexico and the Potosi mountain in Peru. |
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| The San Luis Potosi plant produces extruded aluminum aerosol cans for personal care and household products to customers in North, Central and South America. |
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| The production of the Potosi mine increased greatly in the 1560s after mercury deposits had been discovered in the Andes, as mercury was necessary to process the silver. |
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