Cerro de Pasco: A City Disappearing Due to Mining

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What happens when streets, squares and buildings start to disappear in a city?

This is the case of Cerro de Pasco, capital of the district of Chaupimarca and at the same time of the province of Pasco, located at 4380 m.a.s.l. in the highlands of the Peruvian Andes. It is in this place that the constant expansion of the "open-pit" mining method has devoured the urban fabric, resulting in permanent damage to the territory as its public spaces, heritage buildings and, consequently, its history, disappear.

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Cite: Masalías, Vania. "Cerro de Pasco: A City Disappearing Due to Mining" [Cerro de Pasco: una ciudad que desaparece por la minería] 20 Aug 2022. ArchDaily. (Trans. Pérez Bravo, Amelia) Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/987236/cerro-de-pasco-a-city-disappearing-due-to-mining> ISSN 0719-8884

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