Can't find my Backups folder on Macbook pro

Hey guys I don't think I need my back ups on my Macbook pro if I have back ups on a external hard drive but I have 167GBs of back ups on my macbook pro. Can I delete it and if so how thanks

When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as Backups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself. If you followed bad advice to disable local snapshots by running a shell command, you may have ended up with a lot of data in the Other category. Ask for instructions in that case.

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Can't find my Backups folder on Macbook pro

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