Salt ponds of Maras. Since pre-Inca times, salt has been obtained in Maras by evaporating salty water from a local subterranean stream.

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The salt mines traditionally have been available to any person wishing to harvest salt.

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Location: Maras, Peru
Photo credit: © Marian Kaczmarczyk / Alamy / Afripics
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