#acequia

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Agua es vida

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Prepping an acequia (canal) for the third watering of the irrigation season.

Spaniards and Tigua people began irrigating in this very area (Lower Valley El Paso, Texas) towards the end of the 17th century, with the establishment of Ysleta.

Surely the first irrigation of this kind in Texas (Spaniards originally learned it from the Moors), there is a claim yet to be debunked, that a plot of land next to the Ysleta Mission is the longest continuously cultivated plot of land in the United States. It has been confirmed that many of the canals originally built by the Tigua people, under the command of Spanish padres, were still in use as recently as the 1990s.

Keeping the tradition alive in 2022.

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The Moorish invention that tamed Spain's mountains

An ancient Moorish invention has been providing water to the Sierra Nevada mountains for more than 1,000 years, making life possible in one of Europe's driest regions.

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Irrigation ditch, Bernalillo, New Mexico

Photographer: Charles F. Lummis Date: 1890? Negative Number: 136253

[villings]

Anoche cuando dormía soñé, ¡bendita ilusión!, que una fontana fluía dentro de mi corazón. Di, ¿por qué acequia escondida, agua, vienes hasta mí, manantial de nueva vida de donde nunca bebí?

Antonio Machado

[aryburn-trains]

D&RGW train, engine number 1800, engine type 4-8-4 Train #1, The Royal Gorge; 11 cars, 50 MPH. Photographed: near Acequia, Colo., July 23, 1947.

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