Candelaria is the main festival of Caspana, even though San Lucas is the patron of the community.
The community holds the second lieutenant responsible for the organization of the festival. Women, belonging to the house of the second lieutenant, prepare the meal called "boda" (wedding), served to special guests.
These rituals, related to the annual agricultural cycle, are characterized by the Atacameno traditional rites, which have blended with Christian beliefs, constituting an expression of Andean-Christian syncretism.
Geronimo de Vivar, chronicler - secretary of Pedro de Valdivia conqueror, comments:
"They speak with the demon they take for a friend..." This description refers to the shaman practice in which he communicates with the spirit or supernatural being.