Cuzco Department
Urubamba Province
Maras District

Maras

Maras is a town in the of the Incas, 40 kilometers north of , in the Cusco Region of . The town, in the , is well known for its salt evaporation ponds, located towards from the town center, which have been in use since Inca times.
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  • Type: Town with 1,730 residents
  • Description: town in Cusco, Peru
  • Also known as: “Maras, Peru”

Maras

Latitude
-13.3353° or 13° 20′ 7″ south
Longitude
-72.1565° or 72° 9′ 23″ west
Population
1,730
Elevation
3,378 metres (11,083 feet)
Open location code
57R9MR7V+VC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 441006557
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3935375
Wiki­data ID
Q1026235
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Spanish—“Maras” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Մարաս (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Մարաս”
  • Chinese: “馬拉斯鹽田”
  • Chinese: “马拉斯”
  • Chinese: “马拉斯盐田”
  • Dutch: “Maras”
  • French: “Maras”
  • German: “Maras”
  • Hungarian: “Maras”
  • Irish: “Maras”
  • Italian: “Maras”
  • Japanese: “マラス”
  • Polish: “Maras”
  • Quechua: “Maras”
  • Russian: “Марас”
  • Spanish: “Maras”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Maras”. Photo: 归零者, CC BY-SA 4.0.