May 29
Location Maras salt ponds or mines are located 40 kilometers north of Cusco, in Peru. What is it Since pre-Inca times, salt has been obtained in the Maras area by evaporating salty water from a local subterranean stream. The highly salty water emerges at a spring, a natural outlet of the underground stream. The flow …
May 29
This site is located near the town or Maras, and it is a “must see” as far as Inca archeological sites go. Here there are a number of large circular terraces, deepest of which is approximately 30 meters or so. The purpose of these depressions is uncertain, but their depth, design, and orientation with respect …