CERRO DE PASCO, PERU

Cerro de Pasco is a city in Central Peru, located at the top of the Andean Mountains. It is the city capital of the Pasco Region. The Region is divided into 3 provinces, which subdivide into 28 districts. They are: Daniel Alcides Carrion (capital: Yana-Huanca); Oxa-Pampa (capital: Oxa-Pampa); Pasco (capital: Cerro de Pasco).
Cerro de Pasco, at 4,330 m/14,210ft elevation, it is one of the highest cities in the World, and the highest or 2nd highest city with over 50,000 inhabitants. The highest point of human habitat in the region is reached up at Yana-Cancha area at 4,380 m above the sea level.
At that elevation the region has an Alpine Climate. The average temperature of the warmest month is lower than 10*C (50*F), and the average annual temperature id 5.5*C, and the average annual rainfall is 999 mm.  It has humid summers, dry winters and chilly to cold temperatures throughout the year. Snowfalls can occur sometimes.
Cerro de Pasco is connected by road and by rail to the capital city of Peru, Lima, as far as 300 km.
Cerro de Pasco became one of the World's richest silver producing areas as far back as the 17th century, and still is an active mining center.
The production of those silver mines were the chief source of wealth for William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 - August 14, 1951) and his family. He was born in San Francisco, to millionaire mining engineer, gold-mine owner and U.S. senator (1886-91) George Hearst and his wife Phoebe Apperson Hearst.  Both parents were of Scots-Irish origin. She became  the 1st woman regent of the University of California, Berkeley and "funded many anthropological expeditions." William was enrolled in the harvard College class of 1885. While there he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, one of the oldest North American fraternities with now holds 54 active chapters across the USA and Canada;  the A.D. Club (a Harvard Final Club), a strictly secret society; the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, known for its burlesque cross-dressing musicals;  and of the Harvard Lampoon, an undergraduate humor publication; before being expelled for antics ranging from sponsoring massive beer parties in Harvard Square to sending pudding pots to his professors (their images were depicted within the bowls).
Searching for occupation, in 1887 William took over management of a newspaer, the San Francisco Examiner, which his father received in 1880 as re-payment for a gambling debt. Giving his paper a grand motto, "Monarch of the Dai-Lies," he acquired the best equipment and the most talented writers of the time, including Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Jack London, and a political cartoonist Homer Daven-Port. A self-proclaimed populist, William went on to publish stories of municipal and "financial corruption," often attacking companies in which his own family "held an interest." Within few years, his paper dominated the San Francisco market. Then he envisioned running a large newspaper chain, and he knew that his dream was impossible without a triumph in New York. In 1895, with the financial support of his mother, he bought the failing New York Morning Journal. He imported his best managers from the San Francisco Examiner and quickly established himself as the most attractive employer among New York newspapers. He was "generous," paid more than the competitors, gave credit to his writers and was unfailing polite, unassuming, "impeccably calm," and indulgent of "prima donnas, eccentrics, bohemians, drunks, or reprobates so long as they had useful talents. With them he built the nation's largest newspaper chain with the help of sensationalized stories of dubious veracity. He exercised enormous political influence, and was famously blamed for pushing public opinion leading the United States into a War with Spain in 1898. he was twice elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives. His life story was the main inspiration for the development of the lead character in Orson Welles's film "Citizen Kane."