LAS MINAS DE SAL EN MARAS Y MORAY (TOUR DE MEDIO DIA – 4 HRS APROX.)
Itinerary:
Guided Tour to the circuit nontraditional MORAY, archaeological group unique.
It is gigantic natural depressions or holes in the ground surface that were used to build terraces in contour farming or terraces with their irrigation canals. What catches the attention is the average annual temperature difference between the top and bottom of the depressions, which reaches up to 15 ° C in major depression about 30 meters deep.
MORAY, due to climatic conditions and other characteristics, was an important center of domestication, acclimatization and hybridization of wild plant species that were modified or adapted for human consumption.
Then we drive to the Salt located 7 miles from Moray, pass through a typical Spanish village called Maras. To the northwest of the town of Maras are the famous salt known by some as 
"salt mines" are constituted by about 3000 small pools with an average area of about 5 m², built on the side of the slope of the mountain "Qaqawiñay "During the dry season are filled or" watered "every three days with salt water that comes from a natural manant located at the top of the wells so that the water evaporates, the salt content in it gradually solidifies. That process will continue for about a month to get a considerable amount of solid salt, about 10 cms. height from the floor, which is then well beaten and grainy, the salt is then bagged in plastic bags and shipped to markets in the region today that is being iodized salt so their consumption is not harmful