Expedition reaches unexplored area of the Colca Canyon

An international team of scientists and explorers led by the Polish, Jerzy Majcherczyk, traveled through the narrowest area of the Colca Canyon (3,400 meters deep), the second deepest in the world after Cotahuasi Canyon. Both canyons are located in Arequipa, in the southern Peruvian Andes. The expedition explored, film, and gathered scientific information about the canyon and its origin. On the nine-day journey, covering 20 kilometers of the area called, “Cruz Del Condor,” the explorers discovered an archaeological site that included a funeral compound dug high on one of the canyon’s walls.

The expedition, “Colca Condor,” drew together a team of American, Polish, and Peruvian adventurers, who made a detailed topographic image of the area that was included with their scientific research on a documentary shown in Warsaw, Poland.