The festival of San Isidro ushers in the Yapuy, planting ritual in Cancha Cancha. Participants come from surrounding villages and engage in a ritual battle, throwing machka, toasted, ground corn powder in each other's faces. If someone is injured and blood is spilled, the harvest will be good.
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