Colchagua, which in the native indigenous language means Valley of small lagoons, is the land in which the hunting tribe named The Chiquillanes settled, the most warlike, battle-hardened group of the Mapuche nation. They were finally conquered by the Incas in the XV century, before establishing the valley as the southernmost limit of this great empire. The first pre-Hispanic irrigation works were built by the Incas, and using this method, agriculture was introduced to Colchagua.In the middle of the XVI century, together with the discovery of America and the Spanish conquering of Chile, the Jesuit missionaries planted the first vines in Chile in order to create communion wine. These vineyards were established on Colchagua Valley’s coastal area, at the Jesuit Mission settlement of Pichilemu. This would mark the beginning of vitiviniculture in the Colchagua Valley.