Potosi

Potosí or Potosi may refer to:

Places

United States

  • Potosi, Missouri, in Washington County
  • Potosi, Nevada, a ghost town in Clark County, Nevada
  • Potosi, Texas, in Taylor County
  • Potosi (town), Wisconsin, in Grant County
    • Potosi, Wisconsin, a village within the Town of Potosi

Elsewhere

  • Potosí, the capital of Potosí Department, Bolivia, a silver mining center and UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Potosí Department, a department in southwestern Bolivia
  • Potosi, Venezuela, a disestablished town in Táchira
  • San Luis Potosí City, capital and most populous city of San Luis Potosí, Mexico

Mountains

  • Potosi Mountain (Nevada), U.S.
  • Potosí mountain range or Cordillera de Potosí, to the southeast of the city of Potosí, Bolivia
  • Potosi Peak, in the Sneffels Range, Colorado, US
  • Cerro de Potosí, a mountain near the city of Potosí, Bolivia, also known as Cerro Rico; a Spanish colonial mining site
  • Cerro Potosí, a mountain in Nuevo León, Mexico
  • Huayna Potosí, a mountain in the La Paz Department, Bolivia
  • Wayna Potosí (Oruro), a mountain in the Oruro Department, Bolivia

Other uses

  • Potosi (barque), an 1895 German sailing ship named after the Bolivian city
  • Potosi Correctional Center, a prison near Potosi, Missouri
  • Potosi Mining District, in Clark County, Nevada
  • Potosi, Trelawny, Jamaica, a former sugar plantation
  • Potosi Pinyon (Pinus culminicola), a species of pine tree native to northeast Mexico
  • Potosi pupfish (Cyprinodon alvarezi), a species of fish once endemic to Mexico, but now extinct in the wild

See also

  • Potosi Mine (disambiguation)
  • Potosi Mountain (disambiguation)
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