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The Maize Corn route of the Sacred Valley of the Incas

The Sacred Valley of the Incas is one of the most important spaces and scenery of the origin and development of the culture of the Andes on both margins of the Willka Mayu or Sacred River as its organizer of towns and ecological strata along its banks where diverse types of architecture and hydraulic engineering have been developed by the maize corn farmers, the product of which constitutes one of the fundamental food supplies on the man of the Andes. This diversity makes the visit particularly interesting in:

PISAQ Area of vertical hills where the agronomists built the terraces for the cultivation of maize corn and potato of top of which the astronomers built an observatory that studied and systematizes the planetary world in order to plan the times of sowing and harvesting of their products. As a part of the cultural syncretism, a Sunday fair is held for mass where the local authorities or varayoq attend.

OLLANTAYTAMBO Strategic military, religious, administrative and productive complex. For the specialists, this urbanistic area maintains the best architectural design of the Incas, whose lodgings have been continually inhabited even today. The immensity of the stones used, enormous walls, the light effects, the irrigation canals are a present day reality that shows us a glorious past that opens to us at Punku-Punku, stone entrance gate to the city.

CHINCHERO A town erected in the upper plains of the Sacred Valley was built in honor of the sinchis, brave soldiers of the Incas, where the country house of Inca Tupac Yupanki stood, whose bases have been used for building a colonial church. On Sundays, a colorful fair is held where their magnificent textiles are exhibited and where the bartering system still prevails.

MORAY A biogenetic laboratory of the Incas was built here to domesticate more that a hundred plants from the wild and develop food by reproducing different ecological floors in terraces, controlling the supply of water and using a system of storage that could serve as refrigeration in the town of Maras, its district capital, and also a great producer of salt.

QOYA, YUCAY, CALCA, URUBAMBA, YANAHUARA are towns along the Sacred Valley inhabited by farmers on the banks of the Willka Mayu that were used by the Inca nobility and they form part of a beautiful landscape where maize corn is its main product together with other food supplies that enrich the region.

Alfa Tours proposes the following ways of visiting the Valley.

Sacred Valley And Machupicchu

Plan A

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Plan B

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