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Condor Cross

June 16th 2006
The road along the South western side of Colca Canyon was built as part of the Majes Project by a team of engineers from Arequipa who came to improve access in the valley and to spend painstaking years cutting irrigation channels into the mountain sides to bring additional glacier water to the farming terraces. On the way we passed through Maca, a town littered with white ash from a volcanic exp ... read more
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Peruvian Flag Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more
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