Hello, hello, welcome to your extra Friday slash weekend news video.

My name of course is Philip DeFranco, and today we're going to be talking about a city

that you have most likely never heard of. A city with no roads, no plumbing, no

sewage system, no laws, their Pokemon Go spawn rates are probably horrible, but it does have people and gold.

Specifically, lots and lots of gold. The town is called La Rinconada and it is the highest

permanent human settlement in the world, sitting at almost three miles above sea level in the Andes mountains of Peru.

And those mountains have made Peru the biggest producer of gold in Latin America, 2.5 billion dollars of which is estimated to be mined illegally each year. Which brings us back to Laurinkonado which is actually just a small part of the illegal

gold trade. In the 90s the city was just a small mining camp with only a few hundred gold miners.

But since then tens of thousands of workers have moved there hoping to secure work and

stake their claim to gold turning it from this kind of small mining camp into an illegal

town. And while the Peruvian government has introduced legislation to shut down

illegal mines, the population in this city is still growing, and the city's economy

is almost entirely fueled by gold mines.

And with this surge of people, it has caused the city to become overcrowded, dirty, chaotic, and

with living conditions unlike any other.

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And then talking about those living conditions, average temperatures there are just 4 degrees

Celsius. Your neighborhoods are more like shantytowns with houses made of

tin sheets and no insulation, there's also no running water or pavement.

There's also no sewage system, so there is waste everywhere

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