1626 Potosí flood

Flooding disaster in Potosí, present-day Bolivia thumb|Cerro Rico del Potosí, the first image of Potosi in Europe. Pedro Cieza de León, 1553 The 1626 Potosí flood was a major disaster in Charcas (present-day Bolivia) that led to estimates of 2,000Les ruptures de barrages dans le monde: un nouveau bilan de Potosi (1626, Bolivie) La Houille Blanche Gioda Alain https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279971878 165–170 Serrano Carlos Forenza Ana Dam collapses in the world: a new estimation of the Potosi disaster (1626, Bolivia) French 2002 88 4/5 10.1051/lhb/2002078 or 4,000 human deaths.Serrano Bravo 2004 39 On March 15, 1626, the San Ildefonso Dam burst causing a flood in the city of Potosí that destroyed many silver ore-processing plants (es ingenios) and led to massive economical losses and environmental damages. Some interpreted the catastrophe as a divine punishment for past episodes of violence such as the 1622–1625 War of the Vicuñas and Basques. Dominguez Nicanor J https://books.google.com/books?id=AnJIn82Y-YQC&pg=PA137 Rebels of Laicacota: Spaniards, Indians, and Andean Mestizos in Southern Peru During the Mid-Colonial Crisis of 1650–1680 Dissertation Abstracts International 67–11 Thesis (PhD) 2006 137 9780542988301 . González Moscoso René Historia de las ideas políticas en el mundo y en Bolivia Sucre, Bolivia Spanish Editorial "Tupac Katari" 1989 119–20. There are reports that more than half of the es ingenios were destroyed.Serrano Bravo 2004 89 As silver ore in Potosí was extracted in a process that required mercury by one estimate 19.3 tons of the element, at concentrations of 48 mg/l Hg, were washed away by the flood.Serrano Bravo 2004 90 Reconstruction after the flood went fast and ten years later, by 1636, there were more es ingenios than before the flood.Serrano Bravo 2004 40 The flood is in hindsight seen by some historians as the beginning of a century-long period of decline of Potosí.Serrano Bravo 2004 40 See also 1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures Floods in Bolivia Mercury poisoning Pallaqueo References Bibliography Historia de la minería andina boliviana (siglos XVI–XX) Serrano Bravo Carlos https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/6EF6AA797C1749E905257EFF005C493F/$FILE/Historia_de_Miner%C3%ADa_Andina_Boliviana.pdf 2004 Potosí, Bolivia es Category:1620s natural disasters Category:1620s in the Viceroyalty of Peru Category:1626 in South America Category:1626 in the Spanish Empire Flood Category:Dam failures in South America Category:Environmental disasters in South America Category:Floods in Bolivia Category:History of Potosí Department Category:Mercury pollution Category:History of mining in Bolivia Category:Mining and the environment Category:History of Potosí Category:History of silver mining Category:Silver mining in Bolivia