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La Rinconada is
a town in the Peruvian Andes near a gold mine. At 16,700 feet (3.2 miles)
above sea level, it is the highest permanent settlement in the world.
Between 2001 and 2009, the population increased to 30,000 people from just a
small gold prospector camp because the price of gold rose 235% over that
period.
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| The town of La Rinconada in the Peruvian Andes |
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