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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Villagers harvest salt from five-century-old family ponds using an ancient Quechua principle of collective labor ...

AP Photo/Alie Skowronski A family mines the salt by scooping it into a pan to put in a pile to dry on the sides of the ponds at Salineras de Maras, Maras salt mines, in the Sacred Valley, near Cusco, ...

CUSCO, Peru (AP) — When Uriel plans his work schedule late in summer near his village in the Peruvian mountains, his first decision is usually which friend’s salt pond he will work that day. In ...