Located in the summit of the mountain that dominates the city. The Residence it is located in the high part of the Recoleta, where formerly a Huaca that the Inca dedicated since to the rain from this place all the tributary gulches existed they are visualized to the river that crosses the valley of the Cusco and from where one can observe the pluvial incidence in each sector from Santa Ana's neighborhood to the lagoon of Huacarpay (that is to say the whole valley of the Cusco).

Since the place was mystic and religious where it surrendered cult to the rain, the Spaniards by means of the idolatríes extirpations located a cross in the place changing its name to" Roca del Angel" (Angel Qapa), generating the religious syncretism among the two cultures that it takes place the Velaciòn de la Cruz, celebration where it surrenders cult to the Christian God and the Apu of the mountain.