Maras Moray

Cusco Peru

Maras Maras is located In the west from Cusco, 3300 masl (10824 feets); over a plain, where you can observe snow Mountain range, weqey Willka "la Veronica" at 5682 masl ( 18641 feet ) and Chikon 5530 masl ( 18143 feets ). The town was occupied when the cusquenians abandoned the incas palaces in Cusco and they had to move to others smalls towns around, like San sebastian and Maras.

Likewise while the war that Manco Inca had began to recover his quechua nation, this place served like a fortress. This town has a church with typical religious architecture built with adobe, and in the front yard has a cross carved in granite. Inside the church, there are a lot of Cusquenians paints, those represents the Catholic apostles and others paints by Inca Antonio Sinchi Roqa, he was a native artist from the XVII century.

Moray Approximately 7 Km, (4.3 miles) from maras at the west side, is moray, the once archeological site in the region, has huge natural surfaces and hollows that incas used to built cultivation terraces. The most amazing feature, is the different annual temperature between the summit and the bottom reaching the 15°C (59°F) approximately.

Moray, due its weather conditions and other features was and important enter to domesticate acclimatization and hybridization of several wild species that was adapted for the human consume. Therefore it was a prototype of greenhouse ahead of that time, that helped the ancient american people to consume about 60% of vegetables species and three thousands varieties of potatoes, corns and other species. The structures found here are incas. One of the enigmas is the way of the water flows through aqueducts, one of the theories is presence of the undergrounds channels that allow the water go away, other theory said that it is above a natural porous outcrop stones, that allows the water percolation into the ground. The most amazing feature, is the different annual temperature between the summit and the bottom reaching the 15°C (59°F) approximately.

	Pichingoto Located in "Qoriq'aqya" mountainside, the houses (small buildings) are build with adobe. The habitants of this town believe that they are birds descending, apparently until the first decades of the present century they lived in caves in the other side of the mountain at the high where they climbed with ropes and ladders help, the origin of this community is
unknown and is possible that they lived in Maras sometime ago.