Peru: Salineras de Maras - Photo #1 - a photo on Flickriver

            This one is from the salt evaporation ponds at Maras, Peru, approximately 40km north of Cusco. There are more than 5,000 of these ponds. According to Wiki:

"Since pre-Inca times, salt has been obtained in Maras by evaporating salty water from a local subterranean stream. The highly salty water emerges at a spring, a natural outlet of the underground stream. The flow is directed into an intricate system of tiny channels constructed so that the water runs gradually down onto the several hundred ancient terraced ponds. Almost all the ponds are less than four meters square in area, and none exceeds thirty centimeters in depth. All are necessarily shaped into polygons with the flow of water carefully controlled and monitored by the workers. The altitude of the ponds slowly decreases, so that the water may flow through the myriad branches of the water-supply channels and be introduced slowly through a notch in one sidewall of each pond."

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Taken in: Peru / Cusco / Maras / Joronta (show map)

Taken on: November 1, 2019

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Camera: Nikon D7000, f/5.6, 1/4000 sec, 56mm (=84mm), ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D7000
Lens:	24.0-85.0 mm f/3.5-4.5
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	1/4000 sec
Focal Length:	56mm (35mm equivalent: 84mm)
ISO:	800
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Contrast:	High
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
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