MARAS MORAY: Price: $25.00 for person.

EXITS: Every Day.
DURATION: 6 hours of 8.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.
PERIOD: The Whole Year.

ITINERARY :

Center of agricultural experimentation of Moray.- Located to 3,450 msnm, where we can locate testimonies of the establishments Hispanic pre, like they are the Inca vestiges, constituted by circular platforms that correspond to agricultural embankments with a complex irrigation system that arrived to the three sectors, those that were discovered in 1930.

To this area the Quechua ones denominate it "muyus", in the biggest valley, the depth is of 150 meters, the average of height of the platforms is of 1.80 meters some of others. These correspond to the Inca time, and they constituted a center of agricultural experimentation, in which varieties of cultivations were obtained using the micro climates.

Town of Maras

So nice population still preserve good part of their architectural colonial beauty. Extraordinary covers are appreciated with fine worked in stone, as well as lintels with sculptures in low relief. In the colony it was a very important place you can even appreciate their temple that he/she keeps canvases that represent the pupils that are the artist's of this town mareño work Sinchi Rock.

Salineras of Maras

It is a small brine spring worked with very elementary means by a fraction of the population of Maras and of Pichingoto. These archaeological remains reveal that this resource was already known and used in the time pre - Hispanic, being able to have been one of the many sources of supply of salt for the Inca population.

The technique for the extraction of the salt is very similar to the one used for nine hundred years or more. During every century this technology has been conserved that consists in a true work of hydraulic engineering but in miniature, since the puddles have relatively small dimensions, built by way of platforms in one of the hillsides of the gulch. Each puddle has an entrance channel and desfogue of the water, this way the evaporation is expected and later I pick up of the grain of salt that it is deposited in the floor. The extraction is seasonal, he/she is only carried out in time of dry from May to November or beginnings December; the property of the puddles is given mainly by inheritance.