Cerro de Pasco
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Its terminus, the ancient mining town of Cerro de Pasco, is 14,300 feet above the sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Besides the mines of Cerro de Pasco, Dr Tschudi gives us details of many others situate in various parts of Peru.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
The pleasing impression created by the first view of Cerro de Pasco from the heights is very greatly modified on entering the town.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina
Cerro de Pasco, a town in Peru, 14,200 ft. above the sea-level, with the richest silver mine in S. America.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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