Cusco, Peru

Salt Mines of Maras

Salt Mines of Maras, Cusco

The Salt Mines of Maras spill roughly 4,500 white evaporation pools down a mountain ravine. Fed by a salty spring used since pre-Inca times, they are still worked by hand by around 400 local families.

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Location

Coordinates: -13.30027778, -72.15555556

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