Travel Guide El Triunfo

The village is located about forty kilometres south of La Paz, on the road to Cabo San Lucas. Its mining history goes back as far as 1748, when the first silver deposits were discovered, which were to be exploited until 1786; their difficult access gradually led to their abandonment. This village was therefore only an isolated hamlet until the English company El Progreso Mining Company obtained the concession on the surrounding gold and silver deposits in 1878. Mining activity grew to such an extent that in a few years the village became the main population centre of the peninsula, the most cosmopolitan (Chinese people worked there), the richest and the first to have electricity and telephone: the hamlet gradually urbanized and imposing buildings were built. After the Revolution broke out, the company decided to stop its activities and the village of El Triunfo fell into oblivion. Today, only 500 people live there, but the buildings, symbols of the prosperity of the past, still survive, giving this place the appearance of a ghost village. Today, the remains of the mining infrastructure, including the imposing "La Ramona" chimney, which is said to have been designed by Gustave Eiffel, remain abandoned.