To the south of the central zone of Chile, in the dry coastal area of ​​the Maule Valley, between the mountain ranges that unite the Andes Mountains with the Coastal Mountains, rising imposingly on the north bank of the Mataquito River, is the remote town "Altos de Caone"

Developing agriculture in Caone is not an easy task, because if someone went up to its plains in a year of drought, they would find nothing more than yellow skirts of withered undergrowth interrupted by brownish bushes, rocks and solitary trees sleeping in the torpor of a heat that reaches 30ºC on summer days and cool nights where the temperature drops to 9ºC, waiting for the rains to irrigate the basin.

The panorama is very different in the rainy years, when the water that falls in the winter months drains down the ravines, accumulating in the basin to sprout during the spring months in shining estuaries and extensive meadows that flood the plains, tinting everything green. step and awakening in Caone the fertility that has attracted farmers for centuries.

The first indigenous people who settled in the area knew this well, from whom the word Caone is believed to derive, translated as "Manar de Agua".