The potato originated in the Andes, in a region consisting of southern Peru and northern Bolivia.
It spread from the Americas to the rest of the world as a result of the Columbian Exchange, the exchange of people, food crops, animals and diseases between the Old and New Worlds as a result of European colonisation of the Americas.
The potato originated in the Andes, in a region consisting of southern Peru and northern Bolivia. It spread from the Americas to the rest of the world as a result of the Columbian Exchange, the exchange of people, food crops, animals and diseases between the Old and New Worlds as a result of European colonisation of the Americas.