The TAIRA eaves discovered by the sweden archaelogist Stig Ryden in 1938 is considered the place of petroglyphs art more important of the zone. The Taira eaves is a small rocky shelter virtually invisible from the river, but when you walk up the pronounce pending that keep it apart from the valley, it open before your eyes an scenery that have nothing to envy the Altamira Caves.

Without doubt, the most important work are the representation of lamas, polichrome and naturalistic style. Human figure coming together with animals wearing tunics, head dresses or drums, it shows the importance of this camelidos had for the olders.

During the night is possible observe at the sky, the andes via lactea o Mayu in all it magnificence.Indeed the traditional astronomy watch the constellations as a relationship of stars, the andinos interpreted the black spaces that it form between the nebulous. One of the principal ones is the Yacana, the great light blue lama that nurse her young. Atoq, the fox and Yutu the partridge are with her closer. The proximity of Yutu to the Yacana reveals a tight relantionship between lamas and birds. This relationship also you can find it represented at Taira paintings. Is frecuently to find inside birds and lamas coming together to the fertility of the cattle.

In this tight relationship between birds, lamas, springs would be the central thematic of Taira paintings, that permited to discover one of the most beautiful myth of the andes world represented in this rocks, the Yacana myth.

On the other side of the cannon, but this time inside, you can find La Cueva de la Damiana, one of the important sites because of the quantitie of stlyes that are over the walls and roofs. Indeed does not exist archaelogic trace that permit to indicate the beginning of the human occupation in this place, the rubish that was found at the outside of the cave tells a attempt data of 4000 years before present time, that probably here we can find the alfa and omega about the petroglyphs and pictographs art of Alto Loa.

The Damiana , who gave her name to the place, was a shepherd that lived in this cave till she died, fifty years ago, to her belongs the ruins of the two houses that you can find at the entrance. This shepherd, as equal of some renaissance monks, lived, ate and slept surrounded by work done by people that she never knew.