The importance of the place is marked in the description that the father Cristóbal de Molina's remarkable journey that tarpuntaes-mystical Inca priests, carried out before the winter solstice to get near the place of sunrise It was a pilgrimage Sichuan 100 miles to visit shrines arranged in a straight line. Then traveled another 100 miles back to Cusco, following a line Mantocalla reached the place where the imperial astronomers observed in the eastern sucanca the sunrises, to define the duration of the year and check the dates of solstices and equinoxes.