Salt Mine

There were 5000 salt pans in this place. This place was in existence since preInka times. 300 hundred families own all these pans. Each pan can produce 300 kg of salt each month.  Good source of income as the water came an under ground spring and there is no investment needed to produce the salt other than filling each pan and let the sun dry them before harvesting the salt.  During the rain season, all the pans are brown and they have to wait till the dry seasons between June , July and Agust to harvest the salt. Red hue came from the mud of the area and some comes with yellow hue. They would use the top layer for cooking, those red and yellow hues would be sold to tile business to make ceramic tiles. They also have transformed the salt into beauty products.  Very versatile.