Do not look down at La Culebrilla.ANCASH
The main connecting routes of the towns and places of ancient integration have always been bridle paths, perhaps many of these built in times past as part of the great Qhapaq ñan of the Inca empire.
Until the middle of the last century, Corongo had many roads drawn between the mountains and ravines in which it was surrounded, to access its agricultural population centers that surrounded it or to leave the province
One of them was the Culebrilla path. This rugged road was of vital strategic importance to be able to get from Corongo to the coast, this road was traveled along in those times, from our beloved city. In some unforgettable trips that sometimes left at midnight or in the early morning, in a family troop on horseback, heading to Pacatqui or the Pampa, to where the road that was being built reached and from there you could board a passenger and cargo gondola heading to to the train station in Yungaypampa or the trip was also vice versa when in those places, the horses were expected to pick up those returning to Corongo where they arrived many times after having climbed the dangerous rocky and vertical fall of Culebrilla. with rain and everything.
And why? This vertical stretch with a free rocky fall of about a thousand meters or so that ends at the bed of the Rupaj river was called La Culebrilla? As I remember, once we reached those petra structures in a constant walk from Corongo, the downward path drawn from the Mirador is a great vertical drop from the last hill where the stone called Tijera Rumi is located, which served as a landmark in the area of the Star to know that we had entered the dangerous vertical rock wall of the Culebrilla path and from the top of the beginning of the most dangerous path to follow, we could see the noisy torrent of the Rupaj river, thundering at times when the air currents us. They brought to our ears the rumblings of their violent waters crashing against the immense stones of their bed, falling with fury towards the lowest parts of the Coroguinean geography.
The path drawn in the middle of this vertical rocky stretch by anonymous ancient road builders, of whom there are no references, in order to overcome the gigantic fall, they had to do it in short stretches of zigzagging path with steps at times, until they were overcome. verticality, on a somewhat flatter esplanade now close to the river, and after advancing along that stretch, a narrow suspension bridge made of steel ropes and with creaking wooden planks crossed and laid there was crossed, to overcome the mighty water obstacle.
In the Peruvian Andes, when their bridle paths were traveled in a way of thanking the pacha mama for allowing them to walk in comfort in their paths, the Andean man always made them by building some small sanctuary in strategic places, with some improvised wooden cross, At the foot of which travelers placed bouquets of wild flowers, cigarettes, coins or money, if those who passed by, such as those coming from the coast, showed off the economic well-being they had surely earned in their usual places of residence.
The Culebrilla road was no exception to that surrendered religious faith, of those who climbed it on their mules from the last stop of the passenger gondola that transported them from the coast, there were, in various sections of the road, some rustic sanctuaries and In many cases, according to the transit of travelers, these were contained with coins or some loose or folded bills so that the wind would not carry them away.
Stretch:Corongo-Baños termales Aquilina/Pacatqui
This cliff Road follows the same vertical falls on the Bambas-Corongo Road.
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