Pomata

Pomata overlooks the southwestern shore of Lake Titicaca, in the highland country once ruled by the Lupaca. Its church of Santiago became the home of a venerated image of Our Lady of the Rosary. Pilgrims travelled to the sanctuary, and paintings of the richly dressed Virgin of Pomata carried her likeness far beyond the lakeshore. The church and its devotion joined colonial Christian worship to an older Andean landscape of sacred places.