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Puno Bay, not just San Luis de Alba. Dodge describes San Luis de Alba as having three separate churches: the
Iglesia de San Francisco, the Capilla del Señor Obispo (also known as the Capilla de los Santos Lugares), and the Capilla de las Animas. She also describes a central plaza lined with large houses belonging to important mine owners. Apparently, there were no official town halls or government buildings at San Luis de Alba, as it was not recognized as an official town, only a mining seat (
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After its official founding in AD 1665, San Luis de Alba quickly grew into a large mining community. Historian
Meredith Dodge describes San Luis de Alba as having over 3,000 houses by AD 1667 (Dodge 1984). However, scholars have recently reinterpreted this number to mean the entire population of the
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mining settlement in AD 1665, when it was given ecclesiastical authority and its own priest. San Luis de Alba was built near silver mines on the banks of the mountains Cerro Negro Peque and Cerro
Cancharani. The most famous of these colonial mines were Laicacota and Cancharani. The first silver
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The settlement was abandoned in AD 1668 following a series of uprisings and executions that became known as the
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