The legend of the black boot was born in the Province of El Loa on August 8, and from that date on it has been celebrated with increasing frequency. This is how nowadays, devotees arrive week after week at the Calama Cemetery to ask favors from the patron saint of the poor, from those who are not received anywhere and from those who usually have difficulties to have daily bread. This beautiful woman, whose name was Irene Iturra, looked for work in many places without finding any, this happened in She walked the streets of the city of Calama for weeks, house by house, offering her services as a domestic worker, but she was so beautiful that the housewives rejected her out of fear of having such a beautiful woman in the same house next to her.
Time passed and he ran out of money, at this time he met the owner of a brothel, Mrs. This brothel was the most visited by the miners in the area, who paid whatever they were charged in order to be with the one who was the most beautiful of all the brothel women. That was how she became known in the middle as Irene.
She used to be calm, had a humble expression and although she did not laugh out loud she had a very good humor. They say that she prayed for protection for her friends, for herself and thanked God for being alive. She always wore black boots, some say that to hide a scar on her ankle, that was why over time she was baptized as La Botita Negra.
Determined to leave the past behind, Irene makes the decision to leave the brothel and follow a new life with her love, however before she could go live with her beloved, he was the victim of a detonation from which she could not escape and in which he died tragically.
Sadness and anguish seized Irene blaming himself saying it was a punishment for the life he led. One night on the way to the brothel, she realized that some men were following her, she tried to speed up her stride but they ran to catch up with her and put her in a car. She was taken to the pampas where she was tortured, raped and dismembered. She was found in a place called Punta de Rieles , leaving Chuquicamata on the way to Tocopilla , where they found her remains scattered around the place where the only thing recognizable were the black boots.
