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4 unusual facts about Charcas Province


Francisco Antonio Marín del Valle

When he came to America, eventually settled in the state of Potosí (in modern Bolivia), where work in the mines of Charcas.

Francisco de Carvajal

In the campaign of 1546 Carvajal violently put down the royalist forces in the south of the colony, marching and countermarching from Quito to San Miguel, from Lima to Guamanga and back to Lima, from Lucanas to Cuzco, from Collao to Arequipa and from Arequipa to Charcas.

José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa

When revolution broke out in Buenos Aires on May 25, 1810, Abascal reoccupied the provinces of Córdoba, Potosí, La Paz and Charcas (in Alto Perú, now Bolivia) and reincorporated them into the Viceroyalty of Peru.

Torotoro, Bolivia

Toro Toro (or Torotoro) is a town in the Charcas Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia.



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