Potosí or Potosi may refer to the following topics, whose names generally originate from the name of

Potosí Potosí, known as Villa Imperial de Potosí in the colonial period, is the capital city and a municipality of the Potosí Department, Department of Potosí in Bolivia. It is one of the list of highest cities in the world, highest cities in the wo ...

, a city in modern-day

Bolivia Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...

that was the center of world

silver Silver is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Ag () and atomic number 47. A soft, whitish-gray, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. ...

production during the reign of the

Spanish Empire The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy (political entity), Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered ...

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

, the capital of Potosí Department, Bolivia, a silver mining center and UNESCO World Heritage Site *

Potosí Department Potosí (; Southern Quechua, Quechua: ''P'utuqsi''; Aymara language, Aymara: ''Putusi'') is a Departments of Bolivia, department in southwestern Bolivia. Its area is 118,218 km2 and its population is 856,419 (2024 census). The capital is the ...

, a department in southwestern Bolivia * Potosí, Nicaragua, a town in Rivas Department * 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) Potosi Mountain is approximately southwest of Las Vegas in the Spring Mountains of Clark County, Nevada, Clark County, southern Nevada, United States. It is also called Double Up Mountain and Olcott Peak. Its main bedrock is limestone. Histor ...

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

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

(''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

Places

United States

Elsewhere

Mountains

Other uses

See also