More than 38,000 domestic and foreign tourists have visited the Salineras de Maras, located in the Cusco province of Urubamba, after June 15, when the entry to this tourist site was arranged.
Associates to the Salineras de Maras decided to restrict access to this place for reasons of preservation and cleaning of the production area. Now visitors can only go through authorized passages and viewpoints.

Edgar Morales Tupayachi, president of the Maras Sal Association, informed the Andean Agency that the change generated different reactions, perhaps more positive for the protection of the pool from which natural salt emanates and no one accesses the production area, because before From this arrangement some bad visitors left waste, even cigarette butts.
He argued that the impact of the access restriction (within the salt mines) did not diminish the arrival of tourists to Maras, on the contrary, since Cusco is a tourist region par excellence, the tendency is to increase.
Morales Tupayachi said that around 700 visitors are received every day, on Sundays they exceed 900. Up to this natural attraction come American, European, Asian, Latin American and national visitors, especially on weekends.

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Edgar Morales Tupayachi said that providing a quality and orderly service are the objectives of the Association, and given the increase in tourists there is the possibility of expanding and improving a viewpoint that is located just a few meters from the access to the Salineras. It is a space that has a spectacular view of the production area at the top.

A sample of the great tourist attraction that Maras has is that the parking area looks full of tourist vehicles every day.
To reach the Salineras de Maras, which is located at one end of the district of Maras, province of Urubamba, you take the Cusco-Sacred Valley of Los Incas route, through the Chinchero district, and then a road leading to the mines of Salt.