 Additionally, the site used to be a place of pilgrimage where the Muisca gathered and interchanged goods.Archaeologist Carl Henrik Langebaek noted that the festivities performed at "El Infiernito" date back to the Early Muisca Period (800-1200 AD) and that no evidence was found those celebrations existed in the Herrera Period.The true alignments of the pillar shadows are 91 (east) and 271 degrees (west).