Case file · Sacred site
Mummy Juanita on Ampato
In September 1995 Johan Reinhard and Miguel Zárate found the frozen body of an Inca girl, sacrificed in a capacocha rite about 1450, near the summit of the volcano Ampato.
1995 CE · -15.82, -71.86 · status: official
The account
Eruptions of nearby Sabancaya had melted the ice. Capacocha children were offered to the apus, the mountain lords, who in Andean belief control water and fertility.