Salineras de Maras

Attraction - Sequence 8845

Location
Waypoint Information
NameSalineras de Maras
LocationPerú, Cusco, Urubamba, Maras
Sequence8845
TypeAttraction
Delay Duration45 minutes
Toll / CostS/10,00 (R$15,31)
Notes

Salineras de Maras

A short drive brings the road to a hillside stepped with thousands of small, irregular pools — the Salineras de Maras, still worked today largely as they were centuries ago. A saline spring emerges partway up the mountainside, and the water is channeled into shallow pans where it evaporates in the sun, leaving behind a pink-tinted salt harvested by hand. The color comes from trace minerals in the spring itself, not from any treatment of the salt after the fact.

Expected Weather
30-yr climate normalMonday, May 3, 2027
Temperature
High
62°F
60–65°F
Low
50°F
47–52°F

Precipitation
Chance
35%
Unlikely
Avg amount
3.4 mm
0.7–6.1 mm

Wind
Avg wind
2 mph
2–2 mph
Max gusts
4 mph
3–5 mph

Humidity
83%Translation missing: en.weather.humidity.very_humid
Estimated hourly temperature
Dawn
05:34
Solar noon
11:45
Peak
62.2°F ~13:55
Dusk
17:56
Expected±1σ range (68% of years)
Danger Zone

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