Tour Maras Moray Salineras

Moray: About 7 kms. southwest from Maras is Moray; unique archaeological group in its sort in the region. It is depressions or gigantic natural holes in the ground surface that were used to construct in their contours agricultural terraces or platforms with their respective irrigation canals. In such formations, nature has created an environment, conditions or micro climates that in modern man creates in greenhouses. Moray, due to climatic conditions and other characteristics. It is a prototype greenhouse or well advanced biological research station for time helped the American man of antiquity inherit humanity 60% of plant products it consumes, the Andean man consumes a thousand and a half of several varieties potatoes, one hundred and fifty of corn, and many other products rich.

Type: Traditional
PERIOD: All the time
TIME: 9:00 pm 3:00 pm

Tour description A Moray:

Maras Moray: MARAS colonial picturesque village has a built adobe church still inside paintings of the Cusco School are kept. Located 52km from the city of Cusco belongs to the district of the province of Urubamba to 3300 m. It houses the most important salt mines of the region being exploited since Inca times and the colonial period, which was the first producer of salt center.

Moray: unique archaeological group in his style, located 7 km. Maras, two hours from the city of Cusco in the route of Chinchero is one of the most spectacular views where there platforms or circular terraces with irrigation canals prototype greenhouse or experimental station of different sizes and place of energy concentration female, for what is considered as a magnetic center of the Pachamama.

Maras: salt mines

Located northwest of the town of Maras Known by some as “salt mines” are made up of about 3000 small wells during the drought are filled with salty water emanating from a natural spring every 3 days to evaporate water are forming crystals salt. . The salt is obtained from pre-Hispanic times through a system of sun-dried salt water from an underground stream. Once the water evaporated, the salt is ready for sale.