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About Chivay
Chivay is a city within the Colca valley, capital of the Caylloma province inside the Arequipa location, Peru. Located at approximately 12,000 feet above sea stage, it lies upstream of the famend Colca Canyon. It has a crucial city rectangular and an lively marketplace. Ten km to the east, and 1,500 metres above the city of Chivay lies the Chivay obsidian source. Thermal springs are located 3 km from town; some of heated pools had been constructed. A stone "Inca" bridge crosses the Colca River ravine, just to the north of the city.
The metropolis is a popular staging point for tourists visiting Condor Cross or Cruz Del Condor, wherein condors can be seen catching thermal uplifts some kilometres downstream. Behold the maximum available and famous phase of the Canon del Colca, a landscape ruled by agriculture and characterized by using some of the maximum intensely terraced hillsides in the world. The greenery and accessibility has caused this turning into the canyon’s busiest area with the bulk of the commercial enterprise focused inside the small town of Chivay. The Canyon’s unashamedly raveled nexus, this traditional city has embraced tourism with out losing its unkempt high-usa identity. Long may also it continue.