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Acequia
An
acequia
or
séquia
is a community-operated
watercourse
used in
Spain
and former
Spanish colonies in the Americas
for
irrigation
. Particularly in Spain, the
Andes
, northern
Mexico
, and the modern-day
American Southwest
, acequias are usually historically engineered
canals
that carry
snow runoff
or river water to distant fields. It can also refer to the long central pool in a Moorish garden, such as the
Generalife
in the
Alhambra
in Southern
Iberia
.
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