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Some of the park is in areas that were inhabited by the pre-Colombian cultures. This is known as an Inca trail, but no one has done research – it could be pre-Inca as well. It is built with stones – there's a lot of flooding in the rainy season, you can see there is a lot of water around. And you walk on the stones and it makes travel possible throughout most of the year.
There used to be a communal maintenance of roads and transportation. It was a traditional thing, and many of the communities have left, and the organization has decreased because of political restructuring, which is imposed by the city. And so a lot of that system is breaking apart. To do the highland works, which we will be doing in the next few months, we've had to re-build the trail, and we've done some of that by recovering some of the community organization. Some of that is also by paying people to do it because it is – a lot of the time we've had to take dynamite, we've had to build hanging bridges, and communities no longer have that facility. But it's marvelous, because you go through areas where it is all, like, cobblestones, or even better.
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