LAS SALINAS
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A pinch of salt to enhance your stay? The salt pans, which cover several hundred hectares, are located to the south-east of the city, on the road to Playa El Salado. The salt is collected in an artisanal way between January and April. It is advisable to go to the salt pans in the morning, as the workers start in the cool of the day, before sunrise. You will see the tinas, shallow basins where, through the natural evaporation of the sea water, layers of salt appear, which are then collected with rakes and piled up in small cones, before being bagged and sent to the cooperative. In addition to the traditional form of natural evaporation by the action of the sun and wind, black plastic sheeting is increasingly used at the bottom of the ponds to speed up the process, as well as the use of pumps to bring the sea water into the tinas from the coastal ponds that fill up with the tides. With this technique, 3 to 4 quintals per square meter can be harvested, twice as much as with the traditional system. The salt is also purer and cleaner. At the Marin Campos cooperative, founded in 1968 and employing about 140 people, the salt piles are put into 100-pound bags and loaded onto trucks. The raw salt is used in the food industry, fish canneries and cement plants. Go to the cooperative in the morning, the welcome is nice. They might even offer you a green mango, to be eaten with salt of course!
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