Maras Moray

Departures: Every day

Duratión: 6 Hours from8.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.
Period: All the Year
Type: Traditional

Moray Ruins.- 3450 meters above sea level, where we can find evidence of pre-Hispanic settlement, such as the Inca ruins, consisting of circular platforms that correspond to agricultural embankments with a complex irrigation system that came to the three sectors, which were discovered in 1930.

In the Quechuas the area called "muyus" at the highest hoya, the depth is 150 meters, the average height of the platforms is 1.80 meters from each other. These correspond to the Inca period, and constituted an experimental agricultural center, which won several micro climates.

Maras Village.- Very nice population still retains much of its colonial architectural beauty. We appreciate extraordinary covers with fine carved stone lintels and with bas-relief sculptures.
Las Salineras.- It is a small source of salt worked with very elementary for a fraction of the population of Maras and Pichingoto. These archaeological remains show that this appeal was already known and used in the days of pre - Hispanic, and may have been one of many sources of supply of salt to the Inca population.

The technique for the extraction of salt is very similar to that used for some nine hundred years or more. Throughout the centuries has kept this technology that is a true work of hydraulic engineering but in miniature, since the pools are relatively small size, built by way of platforms in one of the slopes of the gorge. Each poza has an input channel and desfogue water, thus it is expected evaporation and subsequent pickup grain of salt sedimentado left on the floor. The extraction is seasonal, only dry place in time from May to November or early December; ownership of the ponds occurs mainly by inheritance.

INCLUDES:
• Tourist Bus at First Class
• Oficcial Tourist Guide
• Entrances Tickets

RECOMMENDATIONS TO BRING:
• Video Camera/or Photográphic.
• Clothing light and comfortable shoes.