La Rinconada is a village in Los Andes, Peru, 6,000 meters high and with gold underground. Gold has pushed many people to move to La Rinconada looking for job opportunities. Today, more than 40,000 people live there, but gold is also an economic bubble where La Rinconada is living, likely to deflate at any time. The desperate search for gold has introduced an element of chaos in La Rinconada: thousands of metallic shelters throughout the city, no running water or sewage, an almost nonexistent police force, rubbish and excrement everywhere and a dangerous contamination level.
