Sumalao is a rural area located in the central-eastern sector of the Lerma Valley, a little over 32 km south of the city of Salta, in Argentina. A sanctuary is located there, whose image is a Crucified Christ in the invocation of the Lord of Vilque, originally from Peru, in Puno, a devotion that had great adherence during the colonial era in the Andean space due to the commercial circuits that connected several regions. The devotion arose at the end of the 18th century in connection with the trade of mules, in a combination between a religious calendar and a calendar of economic activities and that is understood in its complexity considering its insertion in the Andean space between the colonial and independent periods.