The legendary story of the majestic Illimani The story tells that the son of Huiracocha, Illi, met Mana, the daughter banished by his father, the alarming Furia Keschua. The young woman was very passionate about singing, which made Illi fall in love, but there was a rivalry between the two families that made their relationship unfeasible.
The Canton of Cohoni is a population located 76 km south of La Paz, by ancestral virtue it is the guardian of the Illimani which in our language would be «Illa Umani», «Owner of the water» or «Awicha mother of water» (Kessel and Enríquez, 2002:55), vegetables, flowers, potatoes and broad beans are produced there, highly sought after models in La Paz markets as they are irrigated with water from our much more representative achachila. , and I say wow because every La Paz accepts it as a part of their identity.
In its surroundings you can see its enormous past. Each and every one of the mountains that cover it has terraces from the pre-Hispanic season that speak of a splendid production (except to preserve the ancestral empires), but that today are neglected.In The colony was a space for the exploration of silver by the Spaniards who later settled on the site, designing the composition it has today (extracted from the book Cohoni hija del colosso cristal de nieve by A. Luis Muñoz Fernández, 2003). In the season of the Republic, its importance as a granary and geographical location (trips were made to Cochabamba through this area) ensured that several presidents had their country homes in these places (Mcal. José Antonio de Sucre, Mcal. Andrés de Santa Cruz , Mcal. José Ballivián and also Isidoro Belzu) and it was another paradise for large estates and the advance of landowners due to the fertility of the corner and the semi-slavery that pongage entailed.
The legendary story of creation
Among the much better known Bolivian myths in history you must see the beginning of creation, where the god Viracocha created an Earth without light, inhabited by colossals who did not respect or obey him. Before that, the god Viracocha caused a huge flood that wiped out the entire human race in the world. Then he decided to make new people, similar in shape and size to his own, to instruct them he sent a manager named Viracochan.
ten curiosities about the Illimani
- The Illimani has a height of 6,462mts. above sea level. It is the second much highest mountain in the Cordillera Real, not the first. THE SECOND.
- Its name comes from the aimara, which means «golden water».
- The Illimani is anyway an obsolete volcano
- The much youngest Bolivian to climb the Illimani was 13-year-old David Jonatan Flores in 2008.
- It has 5 peaks, Pico Sur (6,462 meters) which is the most prominent, Pico Central (6,360 meters), Pico Norte or Pico París (6,043 meters), Pico Indiano (6,287 meters) and Pico Laika Khollu (6,159 meters).
- According to legends, El Illimani and Illampu were brothers who fought to the death until the intervention of La Pachamama.
- The belief affirms that the snowcapped are the guardians of the region.
- On the first Monday of September, the Coni crowd has a tradition of going up to the Illimani to make offerings.
- They affirm that at the top is the town of La Paz in miniature
- At 11 years old, Annie of New Zealand origin became the youngest person to climb Illimani, she managed to break this record in 2015, as a plus point, Anni climbed Huayna Potosí at the age of 6.