Cultural Landscape and Heritage: Production and Transformation of the Maras Salt Mines, Cusco

• Autor: Delgado Antezana, Sebastián
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2024
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/30172
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/ensayo/article/view/30172
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Salineras de Maras; Paisaje cultural; Territorio; Maras salt mines; Cultural landscape; Territory

Where are the architecture and landscape compared to the mode of territorial occupation in the Tahuantinsuyo? The research analyzes the Maras salt mines based on its status as a cultural landscape.Being a case study with a historical development in which pre-inca, inca, colonial and republican occupations have overlapped, the importance of Maras is still valid given that it has maintained salt as a constitutive element. The review of the productive and constructive processes of ancestral techniques is proposed, as well as the current cultural manifestations, based on a territorial reading of the limitations and interventions to make salt a product that particularizes the human activity of settlement around the salt of Maras in Cusco.