Potosí
Ruins · Venezuela
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 7.951, -71.655
Why it was abandoned
🌊 Flooded
Detected automatically from the text: The town was deliberately flooded by the Venezuelan government in 1985 to build a hydroelectric dam.
History
Potosí was a Venezuelan town in the western state of Táchira. The town was deliberately flooded by the Venezuelan government in 1985 to build a hydroelectric dam. In 2010, the town was uncovered for the first time since its flooding due to a drought caused by the weather phenomenon El Niño.