Location: It is located in the town of Calca 50 km North of the city of Cusco.Īltitude: The province of Calca has several floors of ecological range from 900msnm in the towns of Star Valley to 6.200 m Yavero Lacco in the snowy Chaiñapuerto Lares district. There are, however, one pass over 4000m so it is essential that you are well acclimatized to the altitude. The trek itself is rated moderate, similar to the Inca Trail. Lares Valley is particularly well know for its very high-quality, brightly coloured weavings and characteristic upturned hats, many of the popular tourist markets being supplied from here. The Lares valley is one of the most picturesque villages in the southern part of Cusco. During the trek you will have opportunity to see how the Quechua-speaking Indians of the high mountain villages live by farming potatoes and oca, and herding llamas and alpacas on the inhospitable flanks of the towering peaks. The Area offers moderately strenuous trekking, though small mountain villages, crossing passes of over 4,000m with spectacular views of the surrounding snow-capped peaks of Pitusiray, Sawasiray and Chicon. The Lares Valley lies to the east of the Urubamba range and its easily accessible from Cusco. Trekking in this area takes you into the remote and rarely visited Lares Valley with the spectacular backdrop of the Urubamba Mountains, and has several snow-capped peaks, the best know of which is Veronica (5,750m. However most companies are combining these treks with a visit to Machu Picchu and therefore train tickets between Ollantaytambo and Aguas Calientes are best bought several weeks in advance. The advantage of this trek is that permits are not required and, in theory, you could just turn up in Cusco and make a booking 2 or 3 days in advance. Since I was a child, I saw my parents dedicating their lives to this product, and I am committed to improve and keep producing coffee of great quality.This remote and rarely visited region offers the trekker an insight into the real lives In Lares You’ll have the opportunity to see thatched stone houses surrounded by herds of llamas and alpacas. This is the second year I am participating in CUP of EXCELLENCE and I am very happy to keep growing in this field and dedicating to the harvest of coffee which benefits me greatly.
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But then the learning and when we competed taught us the necessity of take a better advantage of the weather and land we are located at, so we begin to train and learn about how to transition to specialty coffee, and how to obtain better qualities out of my coffees. Nowadays we have 5 hectares planted in the following way: TYPICA 2ha., BOURBON 1he., GESHA 1ha, native FOREST 1ha.īOURBON, TYPICA and CATURRA were the varieties we started with. When we plant the coffee we always keep in mid to preserve and take care of the native forest and species, we give shadow to the coffee with many different fruit trees such as pacae, pisonay, and also different vegetables that make the soil diverse and rich, and also we feed from them during the harvest. The farm YANAMONTE, is in LACCO CORIMAYO, district of YANATILE, province of CALCA, region of CUSCO.
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