Achirana means "What is neatly into what is
beautiful" and sums up the legend of one of them in Ica, a region located in southern Peru, which masterfully Don Ricardo Palma has one of its most popular traditions.
The Achirana del Inca, tells the sentiment that inspired a
girl in the relentless Pachacútec, when he mastered the Ica Valley without great effort, because its inhabitants were very peaceful
Traversing the
territory under the Inca came to a desert called payment Tate, whose owner was an old lady who lived with his beautiful daughter, who became fascinated Pachacutec and ready to conquer. Although the territory had been easy to master, and was not the heart of the couple. She was left not dazzle by the range of its suitor, as a young man loved his district.
Moved by the selflessness and honesty of the
maiden, the Inca wanted to translate their admiration and affection by giving it what she requested. The girl kneeling begged
water for their land dying of thirst: "Sowing benefits and you harvest of blessings" - told pulls down her cloak.
Pachacutec continued its path in its triumphant spirit of gold, but its forty thousand men stayed ten days to carry out its promise: Open water channel leading to payments of this region iqueña. That achorana remain as a tribute to the sense of a powerful sovereign bowed for a maiden