Pisac and the legend of the princess INCA INKIL CHUMPI petrified.

Pisac does not escape the famous Inca legends. Just before reaching the city there is a natural formation carved in stone, whose name is Inkil Chumpi, which translated into Spanish means florida, the Indians wear it as a leash.

 

There is a legend in which it is said that the daughter of the governor of Pisac, the only daughter and heiress of these lands, was destined by the oracle of Huancar Kcuichi to marry the man build a bridge over the Vilcamayo River in one night.

To perform the feat, there were many suitors, but especially one, a handsome prince decided to accept the challenge and ask for the hand of the princess, Asto Rimaq governor of the mysterious land of the wooded east was the chosen for the big feat.

 

The authorities of the place fixed everything so that Asto Rimac began the work, whereas the princess had to raise a hill without turning to see such a feat; because, otherwise, she and her fiancé would become stone.

When the prince was preparing to build the bridge, the princess goes to the mountains to ask the gods to propitiate the miracle.

the spirits agreed to help him with only one condition, that they did not see tremendous prodigy,
, it is in this situation that Inkil Chumpi in the middle of the walk hears big roars and for a moment gives in to the temptation to see the reason for the noises that came from the river.

Unable to bear it anymore, satisfying her cruel curiosity, she turned and while Asto Rimaq was dragged by the turbulent waters of Vilcamayo, she was petrified with the same expression of that moment, in the place where she can be seen until now.

Since then Inkil Chumpi, turned into a ghostly stone figure lies in solitude contemplating the Valley of his ancestors.