Cueva de los Pincheira is rock shelter located about 65 kilometres (40 mi) southeast of Chillán, in Ñuble Region, Central Chile. The rock shelter is famous for being a hideout of the Pincheira brothers, a royalist outlaw gang. During high season there are reenactments in the cave.[1]
The rock shelter lies in the foothills of the Andes near Laguna Huemul [es].[2] In the 1820s the rock shelter was one of the Pincheira brothers' main encampments together with other locations also close to Chillán. Up to a thousand people are reported to have gathered at the site during the heydays of the Pincheira brothers.[2]
Local lore says that a white mule appears during the night in the small waterfall of the rock shelter.[3] Allegedly, this mule shows the route to the hidden treasures of the Pincheira brothers.[3] It is also said that just before morning a cart can be heard near the rock shelter; additionally, there are sayings that the cries of women have been heard together with the cart.[3] The sayings explain that these are the cries of the women kept captive by the outlaws.[3]
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36°53′46″S 71°33′04″W / 36.896°S 71.551°W / -36.896; -71.551
