STONE FOREST The FRAILONES And COMPLEX ARQUEOLOGICO OF CUMBEMAYO

It is known with the name from frailones the stone forest that is to kilometros of the city of Cajamarca. They take this name popularly because to the distance they resemble the form of encapuchados friars.

To little distance of the stone forest is the Channel of Cumbemayo. On this channel several hypothesis, one of them has been woven says that cumplia a function magica, similar to Quenko; in the Cusco, other than crosses divortiun continental aquarum (it leads waters of the slope of the pacifico to the one of the atlantico, via rio Amazon), another one; that single sirvio is a channel that to take water to Cajamarca.