Oma Sacopo

Oma Sacopo was the original name of a rock-shelter site in the Guachipas country of northwestern Argentina, where a hill of red sandstone holds some thirty-three painted shelters. The paintings show camelids, anthropomorphic "shield-men", warriors, religious ceremonies and animals such as jaguars, rheas and birds. The site was consecrated to the Sun. Its paintings are dated between roughly 900 and 1470, so they record people who lived in these valleys long before the Spanish arrived.