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97 relations: Alpine climate, Arroba, Aymara language, Basement (geology), Bolivia, Bolivian War of Independence, Boliviana de Aviación, Breccia, Buenos Aires, Captain Nicolas Rojas Airport, Cerro Potosí, Cerro Rico, Clastic rock, Club Real Potosí, Coordinated Universal Time, Dacite, Departments of Bolivia, Dike (geology), Don Quixote, El Tío, Estadio Víctor Agustín Ugarte, Extrusive rock, Fracture (geology), Gangue, Geology of Bolivia, Gossan, Groundwater, Huayna Capac, Hydrothermal circulation, Inca Empire, Interbedding, Jean-Claude Wicky, Juan José Castelli, Köppen climate classification, Lava dome, Lhasa, List of highest cities in the world, Llama, Magma, Manuel Belgrano, Mapuche silverwork, Metres above sea level, Mexico, Miguel de Cervantes, Mint mark, Mit'a, Mountain, Mule, Municipalities of Bolivia, Myr, ..., National Mint of Bolivia, New World, Nombre de Dios, Colón, Oceanic climate, Onomatopoeia, Ordovician, Ore, Panama City, Pari Urqu, Patio process, Pedro Cieza de León, Phreatic eruption, Phreatomagmatic eruption, Phyllite, Portobelo, Colón, Potosí Department, Potosí mountain range, Potosí Municipality, Potosi, Missouri, Potosi, Nevada, Potosi, Wisconsin, Provinces of Bolivia, Quechuan languages, Río de la Plata, René Joaquino, San Cristóbal mine (Bolivia), San Luis Potosí City, Sandstone, Sapa Inca, Semi-arid climate, Silver, Spanish dollar, Spanish Empire, Spanish language, Spanish treasure fleet, Tailings, Tibet, Tinku, Tomás Frías Province, Tonne, Tuff, United Kingdom, Upper Peru, Vein (geology), Viceroyalty of Peru, Wenquan, Golmud, York. Expand index (47 more) »
Alpine climate
Alpine climate is the average weather (climate) for the regions above the tree line.
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Arroba
Arroba was a Portuguese and Spanish custom unit of weight, mass or volume.
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Aymara language
Aymara (Aymar aru) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes.
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Basement (geology)
In geology, basement and crystalline basement are the rocks below a sedimentary platform or cover, or more generally any rock below sedimentary rocks or sedimentary basins that are metamorphic or igneous in origin.
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Bolivia
Bolivia (Mborivia; Buliwya; Wuliwya), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.
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Bolivian War of Independence
The Bolivian war of independence began in 1809 with the establishment of government juntas in Sucre and La Paz, after the Chuquisaca Revolution and La Paz revolution.
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Boliviana de Aviación
Boliviana de Aviación, often referred to as simply BoA, is the flag carrier airline of Bolivia and is wholly owned by the country's government.
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Breccia
Breccia is a rock composed of broken fragments of minerals or rock cemented together by a fine-grained matrix that can be similar to or different from the composition of the fragments.
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Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina.
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Captain Nicolas Rojas Airport
Capitán Nicolas Rojas Airport (Aeropuerto Capitán Nicolas Rojas) is an extremely high elevation airport serving the city of Potosí, the capital of the Potosí Department in Bolivia.
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Cerro Potosí
Cerro El Potosí is the highest mountain in the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range of northeast Mexico.
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Cerro Rico
Cerro Rico (Spanish for "rich mountain"), Cerro Potosí ("Potosí mountain") or Sumaq Urqu (Quechua sumaq beautiful, good, pleasant, urqu mountain, "beautiful (good or pleasant) mountain") is a mountain in the Andes near the Bolivian city of Potosí.
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Clastic rock
Clastic rocks are composed of fragments, or clasts, of pre-existing minerals and rock.
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Club Real Potosí
Club Real Potosí is a Bolivian football club based in Potosí.
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Coordinated Universal Time
No description.
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Dacite
Dacite is an igneous, volcanic rock.
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Departments of Bolivia
Bolivia is a unitary state consisting of nine departments (departamentos).
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Dike (geology)
A dike or dyke, in geological usage, is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture in a pre-existing rock body.
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Don Quixote
The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), or just Don Quixote (Oxford English Dictionary, ""), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.
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El Tío
El Tío (The Uncle), is believed in Cerro Rico, Potosí, Bolivia as the "Lord of the Underworld'.
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Estadio Víctor Agustín Ugarte
Estadio Víctor Agustín Ugarte, also known by its old name Estadio Mario Mercado Vaca Guzmán, is a multi-purpose stadium in Potosí, Bolivia.
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Extrusive rock
Extrusive rock refers to the mode of igneous volcanic rock formation in which hot magma from inside the Earth flows out (extrudes) onto the surface as lava or explodes violently into the atmosphere to fall back as pyroclastics or tuff.
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Fracture (geology)
A fracture is any separation in a geologic formation, such as a joint or a fault that divides the rock into two or more pieces.
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Gangue
In mining, gangue is the commercially worthless material that surrounds, or is closely mixed with, a wanted mineral in an ore deposit.
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Geology of Bolivia
The geology of Bolivia comprises a variety of different lithologies as well as tectonic and sedimentary environments.
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Gossan
Gossan (eiserner hut or eisenhut) is intensely oxidized, weathered or decomposed rock, usually the upper and exposed part of an ore deposit or mineral vein.
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Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
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Huayna Capac
Huayna Capac, Huayna Cápac, Guayna Capac (in Hispanicized spellings) or Wayna Qhapaq (Quechua wayna young, young man, qhapaq the mighty one, "the young mighty one") (1464/1468–1527) was the third Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire, born in Tomebamba sixth of the Hanan dynasty, and eleventh of the Inca civilization.
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Hydrothermal circulation
Hydrothermal circulation in its most general sense is the circulation of hot water (Ancient Greek ὕδωρ, water,Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press. and θέρμη, heat). Hydrothermal circulation occurs most often in the vicinity of sources of heat within the Earth's crust.
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Inca Empire
The Inca Empire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, "The Four Regions"), also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, and possibly the largest empire in the world in the early 16th century.
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Interbedding
In geology, interbedding occurs when beds (layers or rock) of a particular lithology lie between or alternate with beds of a different lithology.
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Jean-Claude Wicky
Jean-Claude Wicky (28 January 1946 – 31 July 2016) was a photographer noted for his series on Bolivian miners (1984–2001).
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Juan José Castelli
Juan José Castelli (July 19, 1764 – October 12, 1812) was an Argentine lawyer.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Lava dome
In volcanology, a lava dome or volcanic dome is a roughly circular mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano.
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Lhasa
Lhasa is a city and administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
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List of highest cities in the world
This is an incomplete list of the most geologically elevated settlements in the world.
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Llama
The llama (Lama glama) is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the Pre-Columbian era.
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Magma
Magma (from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma) meaning "thick unguent") is a mixture of molten or semi-molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and is expected to exist on other terrestrial planets and some natural satellites.
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Manuel Belgrano
Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano y González (3 June 1770 – 20 June 1820), usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano, was an Argentine economist, lawyer, politician, and military leader.
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Mapuche silverwork
Mapuche silverwork is one of the best known aspects of Mapuche material culture.
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Metres above sea level
Metres above mean sea level (MAMSL) or simply metres above sea level (MASL or m a.s.l.) is a standard metric measurement in metres of the elevation or altitude of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level.
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Mexico
Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 (assumed)23 April 1616 NS) was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.
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Mint mark
A mint mark is a letter, symbol or an inscription on a coin indicating the mint where the coin was produced.
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Mit'a
Mit'a was mandatory public service in the society of the Inca Empire.
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Mountain
A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak.
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Mule
A mule is the offspring of a male donkey (jack) and a female horse (mare).
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Municipalities of Bolivia
Municipalities in Bolivia are administrative divisions of the entire national territory governed by local elections.
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Myr
The abbreviation myr, "million years", is a unit of a quantity of (i.e.) years, or 31.6 teraseconds.
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National Mint of Bolivia
The National Mint of Bolivia (Casa de la Moneda de Bolivia) or the Mint of Potosí (in colonial era) is a mint located in the city of Potosí in Bolivia.
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New World
The New World is one of the names used for the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas (including nearby islands such as those of the Caribbean and Bermuda).
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Nombre de Dios, Colón
Nombre de Dios is a city and corregimiento in Santa Isabel District, Colón Province, Panama, on the Atlantic coast of Panama in the Colón Province.
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Oceanic climate
An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.
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Onomatopoeia
An onomatopoeia (from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία; ὄνομα for "name" and ποιέω for "I make", adjectival form: "onomatopoeic" or "onomatopoetic") is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the sound that it describes.
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Ordovician
The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.
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Ore
An ore is an occurrence of rock or sediment that contains sufficient minerals with economically important elements, typically metals, that can be economically extracted from the deposit.
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Panama City
Panama City (Ciudad de Panamá) is the capital and largest city of Panama.
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Pari Urqu
Pari Urqu (Aymara pari red hot, Quechua pari warm, to get very hot, overheated, urqu mountain, "hot mountain", hispanicized spellings Pari Orcko, Pary Orcko, Pari Orco) is a mountain in the Andes in Bolivia, about 3,950 m (12,959 ft) high.
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Patio process
The patio process is a process for extracting silver from ore.
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Pedro Cieza de León
Pedro Cieza de León (Llerena, Spain c. 1520 – Seville, Spain 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of Peru.
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Phreatic eruption
A phreatic eruption, also called a phreatic explosion, ultravulcanian eruption or steam-blast eruption, occurs when magma heats ground or surface water.
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Phreatomagmatic eruption
Phreatomagmatic eruptions are volcanic eruptions resulting from interaction between magma and water.
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Phyllite
Phyllite is a type of foliated metamorphic rock created from slate that is further metamorphosed so that very fine grained white mica achieves a preferred orientation.
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Portobelo, Colón
Portobelo (historically Porto Bello in English) is a port city and corregimiento in Portobelo District, Colón Province, Panama with a population of 4,559.
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Potosí Department
Potosí (P'utuqsi) is a department in southwestern Bolivia.
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Potosí mountain range
The Potosí mountain range in Bolivia is situated east and southeast of the city of Potosí.
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Potosí Municipality
Potosí Municipality is the capital municipality of the Tomás Frías Province in the Potosí Department in Bolivia.
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Potosi, Missouri
Potosi is a city in Washington County, Missouri, United States.
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Potosi, Nevada
Potosi or Potosi Camp, was called Crystal City in the 1870s, a mining ghost town in Clark County, Nevada.
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Potosi, Wisconsin
Potosi is a village in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States.
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Provinces of Bolivia
A province is the second largest administrative division in Bolivia, after a department.
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Quechuan languages
Quechua, usually called Runasimi ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Andes and highlands of South America.
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Río de la Plata
The Río de la Plata ("river of silver") — rendered River Plate in British English and the Commonwealth and La Plata River (occasionally Plata River) in other English-speaking countries — is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay and the Paraná rivers.
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René Joaquino
René Joaquino Cabrera is a Bolivian politician and the founder the Social Alliance political party.
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San Cristóbal mine (Bolivia)
The San Cristobal mine in Lipez, Potosí Department, Bolivia is an open-pit silver, lead and zinc mine near the town of San Cristóbal, Potosí.
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San Luis Potosí City
San Luis Potosí, commonly called SLP or simply San Luis, is the capital and the most populous city of the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.
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Sapa Inca
The Sapa Inca (Hispanicized spelling) or Sapa Inka (Quechua for "the only Inca"), also known as Apu ("divinity"), Inka Qhapaq ("mighty Inca"), or simply Sapa ("the only one"), was the ruler of the Kingdom of Cusco and, later, the Emperor of the Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu) and the Neo-Inca State.
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Semi-arid climate
A semi-arid climate or steppe climate is the climate of a region that receives precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate.
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Silver
Silver is a chemical element with symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47.
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Spanish dollar
The Spanish dollar, also known as the piece of eight (peso de ocho or real de a ocho), is a silver coin, of approximately 38 mm diameter, worth eight Spanish reales, that was minted in the Spanish Empire after 1598.
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Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire (Imperio Español; Imperium Hispanicum), historically known as the Hispanic Monarchy (Monarquía Hispánica) and as the Catholic Monarchy (Monarquía Católica) was one of the largest empires in history.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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Spanish treasure fleet
The Spanish treasure fleet, or West Indies Fleet from Spanish Flota de Indias, also called silver fleet or plate fleet (from the Spanish plata meaning "silver"), was a convoy system adopted by the Spanish Empire from 1566 to 1790, linking Spain with its territories in America across the Atlantic.
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Tailings
Tailings, also called mine dumps, culm dumps, slimes, tails, refuse, leach residue or slickens, terra-cone (terrikon), are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction (gangue) of an ore.
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Tibet
Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.
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Tinku
Tinku, a Bolivian Aymara tradition, began as a form of ritualistic combat.
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Tomás Frías Province
Tomás Frías is a province in the northern parts of the Bolivian Potosí Department.
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Tonne
The tonne (Non-SI unit, symbol: t), commonly referred to as the metric ton in the United States, is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms;.
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Tuff
Tuff (from the Italian tufo) is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Upper Peru
This article is about a historical region now in Bolivia.
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Vein (geology)
In geology, a vein is a distinct sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
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Viceroyalty of Peru
The Viceroyalty of Peru (Virreinato del Perú) was a Spanish colonial administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained most of Spanish-ruled South America, governed from the capital of Lima.
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Wenquan, Golmud
Wenquan (i.e. "Warm Springs") is a small settlement in the Qinghai province of China.
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York
York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potosí
