Potosí and Cerro Rico

The Bolivian mining city—one of the highest cities in the world—grew at the foot of an eroded volcano riddled with silver.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Potosí and Cerro Rico.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published March 12, 2023
Data acquired November 24, 2022