Pishku chaki

It is an irrigation system in which water from the river or stream is redirected through a main ditch. Every certain distance, a part of the flow is conducted to a secondary ditch, which is subsequently divided in two by the use of champones, forming an inverted “Y” figure that resembles a bird's foot. The water, at the end of its journey through the tertiary irrigation ditches, begins a movement by gravity and covers the surface of the land by flooding, thus facilitating the development of crops. Pishku chaqui, which means bird's foot, is a special technology for irrigating pastures (pastures) and also an agroecological technique that makes it possible to fertilize pastures with manure through small channels that help disperse it. The objective of the technology is to moisten all crop areas to obtain uniform irrigation and better distribution of water on the plot.