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Pre-Inca terracing in Colca Canyon is ubiquitous--there are thousands of terraces in this area. The Collaguas who belonged to the group of Aymara cultures were masters of constructing agricultural terraces. Terraces created level land that made cultivation easier. Terracing also helped control erosion and were part of the their complex irrigation systems that included aqueducts. As some of these terraces are up to a thousand years old, this kind of agriculture clearly is sustainable. When the Incas started to control the Colca Canyon around 1320 they adapted the Aymara technique of terrace building and applied it elsewhere in the Inca Empire.
This summer I spent 6 weeks on a Glasgow University expedition to the rainforest in Ecuador. Once the expedition was over a few of us stayed out for 4 more weeks and travelled around in Ecuador and Peru.
In Peru we did a trek through Colca Canyon which had some of the most spectacular scenery I've ever seen
Condors are the world's heaviest flying bird. The endangered birds nest in the Colca Canyon - once consider the world's deepest at 3200 metres from mountain top to valley floor.
You can only just see it ... but there is a condor flying against the cloud to the lower left ... really ...
En route from Arequipa to the Colca Canyon ("Cañón del Colca"), was a tourist trap. This photo cost S/1 (18p).
peru october 2005, we were hiking the deepest canyon in the world, colca and on the other side we saw the tiny shapes of the houses that later in the night would be our refuge.
Om 6.15 met de bus naar de Cruz del Condor, een uitzichtpunt in de Colca met de majestueuze vlucht van de condor. De Condors kunnen niet op eigen kracht vliegen maar maken handig gebruik van de in de kloof aanwezige thermiek. Met behulp hiervan stijgen ze vanuit de diepte van de Canyon op naar grote hoogte. Ongeveer 10 condors gezien, prachtig. Ook de terrassen in de Canyon omringt door besneeuwde vulkanen waren prachtig. Gestopt in een aantal dorpjes: in Yanque, mer dansende school meisjes op het plein en het kerkje Iglesia de la Inmaculada Conception. Maca, met kerkje. Op de terugweg genoten van de door Inca's aangelegde terrassen. Daarna lunch in Chivay. Door het Andesgebergte naar Puno dat aan het meer van Titicaca ligt. Via de Patapampa, 4950m, met uitzicht op de vulkanen met Sabaneayo nog actief en pata hhas in bet Salinas national park gereden. Bij de paml Canahuas een broodje gegeten en een muts gekocht. Het Laganillasi meer met flamingos gezien en het Imata Stone Forest. In Puno na het avondeten op een plein een happening gezien van studenten Ortodontie.
The Colca Canyon (Cañón del Colca) is thought to be the deepest canyon in the world--it reaches a depth of over 3000 meters further downstream. This picture was taken at an altitude of approximately 4000 meters (13,000 feet).
The agricultural terraces on both sides of the canyon were built by the Aymara Culture before the Incas conquered the area around 1320. They create level land for farming and make irrigation possible. They also prevent soil erosion. They are still cultivated today. Colca Canyon is filled with these terraces.