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Puno, PerÅ - La Rinconada is located in the Peruvian Andes and is considered the city with the world s highest over sea level (about 5100 meters). This town is at the foot of a millenary glaciers and that is its interior contains gold. Thousands of people from all over Peru reach the rinconada for gold and have to withstand the harsh cold, low oxygen and lack of potable water and sewerage. Men work in a system called cachorreo. They work about 30 days to the manager of the mine without pay money sector and then have a day to get everything they can then sell..Women can not enter the mine because it is considered that would bring bad luck and that is why they can only try to find gold in what I material left over from men..If men or women are lucky to find one gram of gold they can sell to 120 soles (37 dollars)..The city does not contain sewage and excrement is normal t - ZUMAc151

Puno, PerÅ - La Rinconada is located in the Peruvian Andes and is considered the city with the world s highest over sea level (about 5100 meters). This town is at the foot of a millenary glaciers and that is its interior contains gold. Thousands of people from all over Peru reach the rinconada for gold and have to withstand the harsh cold, low oxygen and lack of potable water and sewerage. Men work in a system called cachorreo. They work about 30 days to the manager of the mine without pay money sector and then have a day to get everything they can then sell..Women can not enter the mine because it is considered that would bring bad luck and that is why they can only try to find gold in what I material left over from men..If men or women are lucky to find one gram of gold they can sell to 120 soles (37 dollars)..The city does not contain sewage and excrement is normal t - ZUMAc151

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August 15, 2016 - Puno, PerÅ - La Rinconada is located in the Peruvian Andes and is considered the city with the world s highest over sea level (about 5100 meters). This town is at the foot of a millenary glaciers and that is its interior contains gold. Thousands of people from all over Peru reach the rinconada for gold and have to withstand the harsh cold, low oxygen and lack of potable water and sewerage. Men work in a system called cachorreo. They work about 30 days to the manager of the mine without pay money sector and then have a day to get everything they can then sell..Women can not enter the mine because it is considered that would bring bad luck and that is why they can only try to find gold in what I material left over from men..If men or women are lucky to find one gram of gold they can sell to 120 soles (37 dollars)..The city does not contain sewage and excrement is normal t - ZUMAc151

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