The salt evaporation ponds in this small tributary valley to the Urubamba Valley (in the right background), fed by a natural stream, go back to pre-Columbian times. Salt harvesting by the local community is still ongoing in the early 21st Century - and in principle, every member of the community is allowed to occupy unused ponds.
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- on Monday 30 July 2018 by Martin Mergili
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- anthropogenic processes, cultural landscape, local tradition, mining, mountainscape, museum, science|education, Zonobiome II
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