{"id":2097,"date":"2021-05-21T13:38:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T12:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:43:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T14:43:40","slug":"villa-imperial-de-potosi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/cabinet\/artificialia\/villa-imperial-de-potosi\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa Imperial de Potosi by Francisco J. Mendizabal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Imperial Villa of Potos\u00ed and the iconic mountain of silver that towers over it, called Sumaj Urku or \u2018Beautiful Mountain\u2019 in Quechua and in Spanish Cerro Rico or \u2018Rich Hill\u2019, were once home to one of the world\u2019s largest cities, industrial complexes and silver mines. Borrowing techniques developed first in Mexico, Potos\u00ed refiners and native Andean workers blended pulverised ore with salt and mercury in large, open-air bins. The introduction of mercury amalgamation caused a boom on a scale never before seen in world history. Viceroy Francisco de Toledo (1569\u201380) is rightly credited and blamed for this radical transformation. Mendiz\u00e1bal\u00b4s detailed painting illustrates the reservoir and canal system implemented under Toledo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Imperial Villa of Potos\u00ed and the iconic mountain of silver that towers over it, called Sumaj Urku or \u2018Beautiful Mountain\u2019 in Quechua and in Spanish Cerro Rico or \u2018Rich Hill\u2019, were once home to one of the world\u2019s largest cities, industrial complexes and silver mines. Borrowing techniques developed first in Mexico, Potos\u00ed refiners and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificialia","tag-potosi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3996,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/3996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}