Located at the right side of the Sinkibenia River, in the Pantiacolla range of Manu National Park, Madre de Dios, Southern Peru.
There is not much information found about the ancient inka civilization of the Antisuyo, jungle part of the Tahuantinsuyo Empire. The first information about the Pusharo Petroglifes is from the religious missioners and explorers. In 1921 the Dominic Priest Vicente de Cenitagoya was the first person in Pusharo Petroglifes and the first one drawing all the symbols.
The rock has 27 meters long per 2 meters tall of with different icons: naturalists or realistic, geometric, morphologic and abstract drawings. The drawings where made by using stones and hummed sand by people of the Matshiguenka ethnia. All are painted with “Genipa Americana” (huito) – black/blue colour and with Bixa orellana - (achiote) a reddish colour. At the moment the close native communities still visit the site and re-paint the drawings every now and then as an ancestral tradition and they prefer not to talk about the meaning of them.
