The Mavecure Hills are a group of three monoliths (Pajarito, Mavecure and Mono) that rise above the Inírida River in southeastern Colombia. They are part of the Guiana Shield, the important ecological and geographic region between the tropical savannas and the Amazon rainforest.
The indigenous Puinave people tell that Inírida was the name of a woman of dazzling beauty. One day, a man decided to go to the Mavecure Hills, where the world was born, to find the perfect concoction to make her fall in love.
When Inírida drank the potion, she lost her sense of reality and managed to climb to the top of the pajarito hill where no one had been able to reach. When she woke up from her fainting spell, she decided to live far from humans on the hill and since then she guides life in the Mavecure hills.
