In this event, widespread in the mountains, the members of each community is organized to adorn their respective cross and prepare for the procession to neighboring churches.
The conclusion is intimately tied to appreciation for a good harvest that farmers give to their deities from pre-Hispanic times.
As part of the festival events are common with the folk dancers of scissors. Formerly the danzaq or scissors dancers made their reckless even on the steps of the church steeples.
Today the dance competition also running tests incredible value.

Abandoned to their fate by the viceroy, sick of smallpox (Muru: smallpox, Huay: house) were helped by an image of Christ that, according to the belief, "came in a huge flagstone stone the slopes of the hill Shalacoto (2,959 m) and stayed there. In this place, located in the district Acobamba, 12 km from Tarma, Junin, celebrated one of the most important pilgrimages of Peru. In celebration of this image alive and prehispanic rites predominate elements like water, earth and stone. Today, the rituals of worship began the previous night with burning castles artificial. In the central day is a solemn mass in quechua and then the believers place their "Letter to God." Subsequently returned to Tarma in a procession headed by the foreman, who leads the festivities, his wife, and followed by gangs of dancers in which compete Caracolillos and bold, the contradanza running, and the abrecalle chute.

Week in tursimo Nazca, big tour, where you can appreciate the magic of this place:
The Nazca Lines, unique in the world. They have a huge network of lines and drawings of animals and plants that cover an area of more than approximately 350 km2.
Aqueducts, which belong to the Nazca culture (550 AD), are true filter galleries that cover several kilometers below the surface.
The loom Cantayoc, geoglyphs large textile instruments representing the needle, the spindle and the skeins of thread-the latter consisting of spirals that are similar. All this and more in this week as expected by national and foreign tourists.