Cerro Pintados Geoglyphs

3 kms from the entrance, we came to a parking. We parked there and started walking. There were geoglyphs all over the hills there. There were diagrams of llamas, people, figures and symbols. It was a fantastic sight. No one really know what these symbols meant and why they were drawn here.
There are approximately four hundred images made around the year 1000 AD. The felines, birds, snakes and flocks of llamas and vicuñas scratched into the rock are thought to have been indicators for livestock farmers. The circles, squares, dotted lines and human figures are more enigmatic, however, and may have had something to do with rituals, perhaps even sacrifices.Read more