Caves of Sumbay Paleolithic Art

Located behind the Misti volcano, 88 km from Arequipa and about 1 h 45 minutes drive following the Cailloma road. Sumbay is a typical high plateau setting at an average 4 127 m.a.s.l. The archaeological importance of Sumbay lives, in its caves which exhibit more than 500 paintings from the Paleolithic era, representing human figures, camelidae and pumas have an antiquity of 6000 to 8000 years.