Maras District

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Maras District is an administrative district in the Cusco Region of Peru, known for the town of Maras and its nearby Inca-era salt evaporation ponds.

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Label Occurrences
Maras District canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative territorial entity
district
contains Maras
Maras salt ponds
Salineras de Maras
country Peru
governedBy district municipality
hasCapital Maras
hasCulturalRegion Andean region
hasEconomicActivity agriculture
salt production
tourism
hasHeritage Inca heritage
hasIndigenousCulture Quechua people
surface form: Quechua culture
hasMainVillage Maras
hasNearbyAttraction Moray archaeological site
Sacred Valley
surface form: Sacred Valley of the Incas
hasOfficialNameLanguage Spanish
hasPrimaryReligion Roman Catholicism
hasProvinceCapital Urubamba
hasRegionCapital Cusco
hasSaltSource subterranean saline spring
hasSettlementType district of Peru
hasTouristInfrastructure viewpoints over salt ponds
hasTransportConnection road to Sacred Valley
knownFor Inca-era salt evaporation ponds
tourism
traditional salt production
languageUsed Quechua
Spanish
locatedIn Cusco Region
Urubamba Province
locatedInMountainRange Andes
locatedInTimeZone Peru Time
locatedOnContinent South America
partOf Peru
saltPondsDatingFrom Andean Late Horizon
surface form: Inca period
timeZoneUTCOffset UTC−05:00

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Maras locatedInAdministrativeEntity Maras District
Urubamba Province contains Maras District