
Salkantay Trail
The print
Printed to order at 300 DPI, rendered natively at your size and never upscaled. Print only; the frame in the photos is for scale.
Shipping & returns
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About the Salkantay Trail trail
The Salkantay Trail (Salkantay Lodge to Wayna Lodge) route in Cusco Region measures 7.6 miles and gains 2,596 feet, with a low point of 12,693 feet and a high point of 15,168 feet. The steepest pitch reaches 45 percent, against an average of 342 feet of gain per mile. On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the strenuous band. The nearest town is Abancay, about 27 miles away.
The trail
Salcantay, Salkantay or Sallqantay (in Quechua) is the highest peak in the Vilcabamba mountain range, part of the Peruvian Andes. It is in the Cusco Region, about 60 km (40 mi) west-northwest of the city of Cusco.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Along the route
- Soraypampami 0.2
- 7 Snakesmi 3.0
Places OpenStreetMap maps within 150 m of the route.
Questions about the Salkantay Trail print
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Place names along the route: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Best months are an estimate from NASA POWER climate data (CC BY 4.0), 2001 to 2020 monthly averages adjusted to the trail's elevation, not an official season; check current conditions and closures.













