Potosí or Potosi may refer to:

Places

United States

Potosi, Missouri Potosi is a city in Washington County, Missouri, United States. Potosi is seventy-two miles southwest of St. Louis. The population was 2,660 as of the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Washington County. Located in the Lead Belt, the cit ...

, in Washington County * Potosi, Nevada, a ghost town in Clark County, Nevada *

Potosi, Texas Potosi is a census-designated place (CDP) in Taylor County, Texas, United States. Its population was 2,991 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Abilene, Texas metropolitan statistical area. Geography Potosi is located at (32.335615, -99.665777 ...

, in Taylor County * Potosi (town), Wisconsin, in Grant County **

Potosi, Wisconsin Potosi is a village in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 688 at the 2010 census. The village is in the Town of Potosi. History Potosi is located where Wisconsin's lead ore belt intersects with the Mississippi. The pos ...

, a village within the Town of Potosi

Elsewhere

Potosí Potosí, known as Villa Imperial de Potosí in the colonial period, is the capital city and a municipality of the Department of Potosí in Bolivia. It is one of the highest cities in the world at a nominal . For centuries, it was the location o ...

, the capital of Potosí Department, Bolivia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site *

Potosí Department Potosí (; Aymara language, Aymara: ''Putusi''; qu, P'utuqsi) is a Departments of Bolivia, department in southwestern Bolivia. It comprises 118,218 km2 with 823,517 inhabitants (2012 census). The capital is the city of Potosí. It is most ...

, a department in southwestern Bolivia * Potosi, Venezuela, a disestablished town in Táchira *

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. It is the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of San Luis Potosí. The city lies at an eleva ...

, capital and most populous city of San Luis Potosí, Mexico

Mountains

Potosi Mountain (Nevada) Potosi Mountain is about southwest of Las Vegas in the Spring Mountains of Clark County, southern Nevada. It is also called Double Up Mountain and Olcott Peak. Its main bedrock is limestone. History The giant cave of Potosi Mountain was used ...

, U.S. *

Potosí mountain range The Potosí mountain range in Bolivia is situated east and southeast of the city of Potosí. It is at least 25 km long stretching from north to south. Its highest mountain is Khunurana (Anaruyu) rising up to 5,071 m (16,637 ft). ...

or ''Cordillera de Potosí'', to the southeast of the city of Potosí, Bolivia *

Potosi Peak Potosi Peak is a 13,786-foot-elevation (4,202 meter) mountain summit located in Ouray County of Colorado, United States. It is situated five miles southwest of the community of Ouray, on land managed by Uncompahgre National Forest. It is part o ...

, in the Sneffels Range, Colorado, US *

Cerro de Potosí 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 Bolivi ...

, a mountain near the city of Potosí, Bolivia, also known as ''Cerro Rico''; a Spanish colonial mining site *

Cerro Potosí Cerro El Potosí is the highest mountain in the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range of northeast Mexico. It is located in the state of Nuevo León, about 80 km (50 mi) south of Monterrey. Flora and fauna It is composed of limestone ...

, a mountain in Nuevo León, Mexico *

Huayna Potosí Huayna Potosí is a mountain in Bolivia, located near El Alto and about 25 km north of La Paz in the Cordillera Real. Huayna Potosí is the closest high mountain to La Paz. Surrounded by high mountains, it is roughly 15 miles due ...

, a mountain in the La Paz Department, Bolivia *

Wayna Potosí (Oruro) Wayna Potosí (Aymara and Quechua ''wayna'' young, Hispanicized spelling ''Huayna Potosí'') is a mountain in the Andes of Bolivia, about 4,969 metres (16,302 ft) high. It is located in the Oruro Department, Sajama Province, Turku Mun ...

, a mountain in the Oruro Department, Bolivia

Other uses

* ''Potosi'' (barque), an 1895 German sailing ship named after the Bolivian city *

Potosi Correctional Center Potosi Correctional Center (PCC) is a Missouri Department of Corrections prison located in unincorporated Washington County, Missouri, near Mineral Point. The facility currently houses 800 death row, maximum security and high-risk male inmate ...

, a prison near Potosi, Missouri *

Potosi Mining District :''The current Potosi Mining District in Humboldt County, Nevada is a major world-class producer of gold and includes the Pinson, Twin Creeks, Turquoise Creek and Getchell mines. There was a Potosi mine in Lincoln County, Nevada.'' The Potosi ...

, in Clark County, Nevada *

Potosi, Trelawny, Jamaica Potosi is a former sugar estate in Trelawny, Jamaica. It was named after a fabled Bolivian silver mine. History The estate originally belonged to Thomas Partridge of St. James. His son, also named Thomas, inherited the property and, upon the ...

, a former sugar plantation *

Potosi Pinyon ''Pinus culminicola'', commonly known as Potosí pinyon or Potosí Piñón, is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native and endemism, endemic to northeast Mexico. The range is highly localised, confined to a small area of high summits in the north ...

(''Pinus culminicola''), a species of pine tree native to northeast Mexico *

Potosi pupfish Potosi pupfish (''Cyprinodon alvarezi'') is a species of fish in the family Cyprinodontidae. It is endemic to Mexico, but is now extinct in the wild, only surviving in captivity. Distribution The Potosi pupfish is endemic to an isolated spri ...

(''Cyprinodon alvarezi''), a species of fish once endemic to Mexico, but now extinct in the wild

Places

United States

Elsewhere

Mountains

Other uses

See also