Cantalloc Aqueducts Tour with Los Paredones Inca Site
From €56 per person
See availability →A Cantalloc aqueducts tour from Nazca, guided, with hotel pickup: walk the underground channels, climb a hill to a geoglyph and finish at the Inca site of Los Paredones.
A Cantalloc aqueducts tour shows a side of Nazca that has nothing to do with the sky: the water engineering that let people live in the desert. After pickup at your hotel in Nazca, you head to the aqueducts, dating back over 1,500 years to the ancient Nazca culture.
Your guide explains how these underground channels, made of stone slabs and huarango tree trunks, still irrigate the fields of the valley. Archaeologists have found 46 of them, and 32 still carry water. Along the way you see the puquios, spiral wells used for ventilation and maintenance.
- The Cantalloc Aqueducts, explored on foot
- A walk up a hill to reach a geoglyph
- A nearby viewpoint over one of the Nazca Lines
- The Inca site of Los Paredones, dating from around 1450 AD
The tour takes about two hours and ends with a drop-off at your hotel. Tips, meals and drinks are not included. It is not suitable for people with mobility impairments, since part of it is a hike up a hill. Guiding is in English or Spanish.