Las cañas se vuelven lanzas en Arauco: un torneo indígena en el poema anónimo Las guerras de Chile (cantos IX y X).

This paper focuses on the episode of the indigenous tournament included in the anonymous poem Las guerras de Chile, cantos IX and X, in which take part two squads of people coming from Purén and Catiray, in the Araucanian region, when the sports fight is about to turn into a bloody fight to the death. It is analysed the relationship with the sixth chapter of the First Part of Las guerras civiles de Granada by Ginés Pérez de Hita (1591), where we found a similar combat between Cegríes and Abencerrajes. Some echos from the classic epic poetry are also mentioned, for example the catalogue of troops. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]