 The area is referred to as Purgatorio (purgatory) by local people.The site was a major regional center, maybe even the capital of the successive occupations of the area by the Lambayeque/Sican (800-1350 AD), Chimú (1350–1450 AD) and Inca (1450–1532 AD).Local shaman healers ("curanderos") invoke power of Tucume and La Raya Mountain in their rituals, and local people fear these sites.