Quechua agricultural technique for climate crisis

On the border between Peru and Bolivia an ancient agricultural technique called "Waru, Waru" has been tested which in the Quechua language means bridge, to counteract the effects of climate change on the territory and protect for example potato and quinoa crops as was done two thousand years ago. Seen from above these are circular traces of cultivated land crossed by straight lines (figuratively like the famous crop circles made by alleged aliens) with a design that favors irrigation and is very useful in times of drought and frost. The chosen area is located in Puno near Lake Titicaca at about three thousand eight hundred meters above sea level where farmers have prepared six of these characteristic Waru Waru fields near irrigated land, with water around the vegetation that creates a microclimate by absorbing heat during the day and returning it at night.

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