Cueva de los Pincheira


Cueva del los Pincheira is a shallow cave located about 65 km southeast of Chillán, in Ñuble Region, Central Chile. The cave is famous for being a hideout of the Pincheira brothers, a royalist outlaw gang. During high season there are reeanactments in the cave.
The cave lies in the foothills of the Andes near Laguna Huemul. In the 1820s the cave was one of the Pincheira brothers main encampments together with other locations also close to Chillán. Up to thousand people are reported to have gathered at the site during the heydays of the Pincheira brothers.
Loca lore says that a white mule appears during the night in the small waterfall of the cave. Allegedly this mule shows the route to the hidden treaures of the Pincheira brothers. It is also said that just before the morning a cart han be hear near the cave, additionally there are sayings that the cries of women have been heard together the cart. The sayings explain these are the cries of the women kept captive by the outlaws.