5 km southwest of the city of Ica (5 minutes). It is a traditional resting place for iqueños. The lake appears as an oasis in the middle of the desert, many people Called the "oasis of America," forming a splendid landscape of dunes, palm trees and huarango. Some villagers healing properties attributed to its waters. and increasingly as an attraction for tourists drawn by the sport of sandboarding on sand dunes that stretch several hundred feet high.
Legend holds that the lagoon was created when a beautiful native princess was apprehended at her bath by a young hunter. She fled, leaving the pool of water she had been bathing in to become the lagoon. The folds of her mantle, streaming behind her as she ran, became the surrounding sand dunes. And the woman herself is rumored to still live in the oasis.
