A beach in Punta del Este was filled with stone towers and nobody knows why

PUNTA DEL ESTE (El País / GDA) .- The beach of Punta Salina, in

Point of East

It looks different In the part of the rocks, do not know who or exactly when, some armed stones of the place several towers, which are photographed and curiously looks by those who cross the square.

Although in

Uruguay

and in the area, it is not common to see, rock-climbing in these rocky places is a very old practice that in other parts of the world is not strange and has its roots in different cultures.

And before arriving in Uruguay, in recent years, it started to become a kind of fashion in places where it was not common to see them, for example in Spain. The newspaper
Spain explained a long time ago that in South America, the Indians who lived in the Andes did so, and that it was a kind of offering to the Pachamama, or our Mother Earth. They called it apacheta.

It is also a custom that has its roots in certain areas of the Arctic Circle of North America. There, they called it Inukshuk and served as landmarks in the mountains to guide travelers.

Meanwhile, in other areas such as Ireland, these cairns were used to mark the burial sites.