One hour away by road from the Callalli district, are the Cuevas de Mollepunco, where you can see cave paintings. A first group of images painted in red show hunters and gatherers, in a second group figures sculpted in low relief can be seen where men develop techniques for capturing and taming animals.
The Mollepunko caves are part of a 7m of volcanic lava flow. background. 4m. wide and 5m high. Parietal art moves in three spaces that have been used from prehistory to the present.
Inside you can find paintings in low relief and figures on engraving. In the caves of Mollepunku there are also pictographs from the lithic age, which is the first form of rock art in the Andean area and especially in the south of the country.
The elaboration techniques correspond to European prehistory in its Paleolithic art. Its main motifs are geometric figures, camelids, vizcachas and humans with red, yellow and white hats.
On one side of the cave there is a tomb made of broken stone with a matrix of clay. At the left end of the Mollepunku complex, a Collagua tomb made of pierced stone with a mud matrix can be seen, and on the left side of this a new cavity without traces of prehistoric art is found covered by weeds, which was probably discovered by a rock slide.
Clear sample of the hunting inhabitants of 6000 years ago.