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This tour will take passengers to the high Andean plateaus between the city of
Cuzco and the Urubamba Sacred
Valley. The first stop will be Chinchero, a small Andean town whose population is composed of twelve indigenous communities that maintain the ayllu system, a political organizational method in force before the arrival of the Spanish conquerors. Inhabitants of the communities of the area meet in
Chinchero to hold their weekly markets, where the barter method is still used. The group will then head to the
Moray archaeological complex, which is composed of four slightly elliptical agricultural terraces. Many think that this place was an important agricultural experimentation center for the Incas, in which, through the use of concentric terraces and because the temperature is different in each of their level, all the ecological tiers found in the Inca Empire would have been reproduced. The last stop will be
Maras, recognized because of the salt mines exploited since Inca times up to date. The salt mines are made up by
approximately 3,000 small pools of 5 m². The work consists in filling them with salt water (which rises from a natural source located at the top of the complex) until it evaporates and the salt remains.
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