The Cerro El Plomo capacocha ceremony occurred at the top of a sacred peak, or Apu, situated in the Mapocho Valley, where Santiago de Chile is now located. Archaeologists believe that such an important Inca ritual was not only of a political-religious nature within the conquest of conquered valleys, but that it also functioned as a mechanism of symbolic efficacy, and as a means of achieving the ideological introduction and assimilation of the local ethnic groups that had occupied the valley before the arrival of the Incas. The use of anthropomorphic figurines as part of the ritual, like the one found in 1954 in the context of an invasion of an archaeological site by tomb robbers, highlights the standardization of symbolic material within the Inca state, as well as the distinctive identity components apparent in the design of textiles. In light of these factors, a semiotic analy...

This research aims to substantiate the politics presence of an Inca governor in the Mapocho valley through a mul- tidisciplinary analysis aimed at the study of the Inca do- main in the area and the material and symbolic meaning of the male anthropomorphic statuette of the «orejón» found in 1988 at the top of Cerro El Plomo. The discussion focuses on the chronicle of Gerónimo de Bibar and the Letters of Pedro de Valdivia, mainly, with the objective of highlighting the Inca territorial problems and the possible urban and symbolic features in the Aconcagua and Mapo- cho valleys. Approaching for this from the ethnohistorical and anthropological information perspective of the mate- riality and symbolism of the huacas or demarcation land- marks, understood as territorial landmarks within the Inca ideology. Allowing himself to theorize about the possible character of «social huaca» of the...