Parque Comunitario Guanekura (Piedra Tacita)

The Guanekura Community Park is a natural and ceremonial space in Curacaví that houses the Tacita Stone: a large rock with multiple circular and oval cavities carved into its surface, an archaeological vestige attributed to the original peoples who inhabited the area. An open place, ideal to get to know part of the pre-Columbian history of the territory. Tacita stones (piedras tacitas) are a type of archaeological vestige typical of central Chile. According to Chile's National Monuments Council, they were carved by hunter-gatherer peoples more than 10,000 years ago: small, shallow, round or oval hollows worked into a rock surface. They are believed to have been used mainly to grind seeds, and many are found in places linked to ritual use. The signs at the site put the age of this stone at 10,000 years. It is protected as a National Monument, in the Archaeological Monument category, under the National Monuments Law, which forbids any intervention or alteration of the monument: it is a place to look at, photograph and look after.