Moray Inca

These are terraces or agricultural platforms built in depressions or gigantic natural holes. These terraces are superimposed concentrically, taking the shape of a gigantic amphitheater. The largest hole has a depth of 150 m and the average height of the platforms is 1.80 m. According to historians, these constructions constituted an important agricultural laboratory of the Inca empire, since their platforms are built with their respective irrigation canals and each one constitutes a microclimate. What is striking is the great difference in average annual temperature between the top and bottom of the depressions, a difference that reaches up to 15°C. Thanks to the platforms, the Incas harvested their products in different climates and levels, in order to discover the conditions that each crop needed. Moray has 20 types of microclimates in total, which makes it truly amazing. The distribution of so many types of microclimates corresponds to the circular and concentric shape, which allows the temperature to graduate from the outside. On the lower platforms, the climate is humid and low in temperature. The sector that follows has a higher temperature that ranges from 2º C to 3º C. This change in climate on the platforms allowed the Incas to grow different products, including a wide variety of tubers.