It is located at 3198m.a.s.l. (3100 meters) (10170 feet), 35 km (about 25 miles, 1 hour ) to the south (east) of Cusco by the paved road leading to Puno. Its lands are very fertile and there are two important tourist attractions; it has a church with humble external aspect that keeps one of the most valuable jewels of the colonial art in Peru, denominated the Capilla Sixtina of Peru." The interior of the Church of San Pedro of Andahuaylillas is an explosion of Baroque art with great quantity of decorations. It was built in 1631, and according to the Spanish tradition, about an Inca temple, it has numerous and beautiful paintings of the Escuela Cusqueña; its altars and wood carvings are beautiful pieces elaborated in leaf of gold, its colored roof is a perfect beauty.
Its huge square is decorated with "pisonay" (trees of Coral) and the trees of palm. Its greatest treasure is the colonial church of Andahuaylillas.. This church was possibly built over some important Inca temples, maybe "Waka" (the urn). They used carved and sites, from the religious Inca architecture, to build the base of the churches.
