Conquerors, explorers, chroniclers, researchers and adventurers, from the XVI century to our days, affirm that the Incas in the city of Cusco, used these tunnels for different purposes and integrated some of their palaces and most important temples with them. There are many reports that it was through these artificial galleries (known by the Quechua word, «Chinkana», which literally means labyrinth) how they outsmarted the Spanish conquerors, making disappear a good part of the immeasurable riches of gold and silver that the twelve Inca dynasties had accumulated during his empire.

All the documents and stories transmitted that we have investigated from the time of Pizarro to the present day, point indisputably and with conclusive evidence to two specific enclaves that would confirm the existence of some important entrances to this immense network of tunnels used by the Incas: the walls of Saqsaywaman , and the Temple of the Sun of the Incas - Koricancha (current Convent of Santo Domingo) in Cusco, Peru.

Both archeology and official science, for the moment, have not investigated enough to unravel this mystery, and what is even more important, rigorous and extensive excavations have not been carried out in the precise places indicated by the ancient traditions.

The works and excavations carried out by Anselm Pi Rambla and his team in the current Santo Domingo Convent and in the Saqsaywaman archaeological park confirm the existence of a tunnel (chinkana) that starts from the Temple of the Sun (Koricancha) to inside the walls of Saqsaywaman and connects according to all the chronicles with this immense network of tunnels that run through the Peruvian Andes.