Cerro de Pasco
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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For two years they had been in Oroya, Peru on the staff of New York's Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its terminus, the ancient mining town of Cerro de Pasco, is 14,300 feet above the sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
We arrived at Oroya late in the afternoon, and departed for Cerro de Pasco by rail on the following morning.
From Under the Andes by Rex Stout
The operation of separating the silver from the dross is performed at some distance from Cerro de Pasco, in haciendas, belonging to the great mine owners.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Thomasina Ross
There are times when the boyas bring such an influx of miners to Cerro de Pasco that the population is augmented to double or triple its ordinary amount.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Thomasina Ross
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