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The Colca Canyon is inhabited by two ethnic groups Collaguas the Cabanas and the beautiful girl in the picture are ethnic Cabana.
Colca Canyon is a canyon of the Colca River in southern Peru.
Inca and pre-Inca terraces are still cultivated along the less precipitous canyon walls, as you can see.
It is more than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in the United States at 4,160 m., and it is promoted as the "world's deepest canyon," although the canyon's walls are not as vertical as those of the Grand Canyon.
The north side of the Colca river is lush and green due to the glacial runoff that feeds the river. The local villages designed ingenious irrigation systems to capture this water and farm in this brutal environment.
Terrazas de cultivo de la civilización collagua en el valle del río Colca, unos kilómetros antes de la zona donde el terreno se pliega hasta formar un profundo cañón.
Farming terraces of the collagua civilization in the Colca river valley, some kilometers before the aera where the terrain folds up to form a deep canyon.
Colca Canyon
Peru holds some of the most beautiful places on earth. Colca Canyon is one such place. Absolutely beautiful.
Colca Canyon
Date: 2019-06-24
Sentinel-2 L2A + Sentinel-2 L2A + Enhanced False Color Composite
Author: Monja Šebela
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2019], processed by Sentinel Hub