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The Cañón del Colca is regarded as the deepest canyon in the world. Here, the Colca River is about 1800 m (6000 feet) below. But at its deepest point, the Canyon is more than twice this deep.
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.
Colca Canyon, a river canyon in southern Peru famed as one of the world's deepest (3270m), is a well-known trekking destination. It's a habitat for the giant Andean condor, on view from overlooks like Cruz del Condor. The canyon landscape comprises a green valley and remote traditional villages with terraced agriculture that predates the Incas. Its Colca River is popular for rafting.
To me one of the most beautiful landscapes. Dit is in de Colca canyon landinwaarts bij Arreguipa. Een van de mooiste landschappen van Peru
Some photos of a month long trip around Peru, we covered a lot on this trip traveling from Lima to Pisco, then the bay of Paracas with the beautiful Ballestas islands.
Then to Ica and the Oasis at Huacachina, Nasca and the amazing lines in the dessert as well as the mummy cemetery at Chauchilla. Later to Arequipa the colca canyon with its condors, and from the Colca to Puno and Lake Titicaca visiting Taquile, Amantani, and the floating islands the Uros.
The last leg of the trip included Cuzco, the Sacred Valley, the Inca Trail, Machu Picchu, and some days at a jungle lodge in Puerto Maldonado.
A fantastic trip, covering some of the best sights Peru has to offer.
First view over the rim - the towns of Cosnirhua and Malata. The north rim is lush and green, and the south is rocky and dusty. Tomorrow we will have descended, stayed in San Juan de Chuccho, and hiked through those towns. It's a loooong way down....You can see snow-capped mountains in the distance.