Expedition reaches unexplored area of the Colca Canyon

An international team of scientists and explorers lead by the Polish Jerzy Majcherczyk traveled through the narrowest area of the Colca Canyon, the second deepest in the world after Cotahuasi Canyon, both in the southern Peruvian Andes, exploring, filming and gathering 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; a funeral compound dug high on one of the canyon’s walls. The Colca Canyon is 3,400 meters deep.

The expedition was called “Colca Condor 2008” and gathered a team of Americans, Polishes and Peruvians adventurers, who made a detailed topographic image of the area that was included with their scientific research on a documentary shown in Warsaw, Poland, last September.