Upper Peru

• Silver mines

• Mita: yearly labor draft, ~20,000

• Mercuryessential for smelting ore

Oruro

Chucuito

La Paz

Potosí

Cuzco

Huancavelica (source of mercury)

Arequipa

Machaca

Porco

Peter Bakewell, Miners of the Red Mountain

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