Peña Buraca (Canchal de los Dos Ojos)

About this heritage

It is a large stone block with three large cavities that resemble a human face. It may have been used as a dwelling or hermitage in the Early Middle Ages, as dripstones for adjusting the roof can be seen, and below several beam holes to fit the beams, as shown by another nearby rock, among which rectangular, trapezoidal, and anthropomorphic rock-cut tombs appear. Peña Buracá has been popularly interpreted as a “owl idol” from Prehistory, but the settlement in its surroundings dates to the Late Empire, according to numismatic findings.