A Franciscan mission had been established at…
1600 CE
A Franciscan mission had been established at the site of the future city of San Luis Potosi in 1583, nine years before the city's founding in 1592.
San Luis has grown rapidly, owing to the region's rich gold and silver mines.
The silver-mining capital (population 120,000) has by 1600 become America’s largest urban center and the world’s second largest city after London.
The city is today the capital of, and most populous city in, the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí.
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