There were several Spanish chroniclers who wanted to discover and even gave a different origin to the name of the word Ica, but without support, until it was a Peruvian who revealed this mystery.
Many Spanish chroniclers were in charge of searching for the origin of this word, creating several hypotheses, but without a clear foundation; until a Peruvian, Dr. José Sebastián Barranca Lovera, managed to discover the mystery.
The prominent Dr. Barranca extracted the prefix root ‘IK’, from the 25 Yungas dialects that were known, and which corresponds to “river, well, lagoon” and referring to the geographical constitution of the deep valley between two mountain chains, for where a river runs, surrounded by lagoons, on land of superficial humidity, and invaded by the heat of the sun.
This linguistic truth was confirmed by Ica historians, Doctors Teodorico Olaechea and Don José Toribio Polo.
Ica, was the name of the oldest Curacazgo of the Yunga Cultural Empire, and that with the arrival of the Spanish conquerors, gave rise to three colonial towns: Santiago de Urin – Ika, Purísima Concepción de Anan Ika and San Juan Bautista de Urin – Ika .
This valley was a place of agricultural development, which allowed the Inca Empire to integrate it as part of Tahuantinsuyo, and the city of Tacaraca, a very important administrative and religious center on the southern coast, was built as an example of Inca power. The Spanish conqueror Nicolás de Ribera “the Elder” received the lower part of the valley as a commission, having to face the rebellious attitude of the curacas of the area. Later, in 1563, the viceroy Conde de Nieva ordered Captain Jerónimo de Cabrera to establish the Villa de Valverde, which from 1640 was called Ica.
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