page_title: Acequia
hierarchical_section_title: Acequia
caption_attribution_description: La Canova acequia, near Velarde, New Mexico
context_page_description: 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. Examples of acequias in New Mexico have lengthy historical roots to Pueblo and Hispano communities, and they are incorporated into traditions including the matachines, life in the Rio Grande Bosque of the Albuquerque metropolitan area, and pilgrimages to El Santuario de Chimayo.
  The term can also refer to the long central pool in a Moorish garden, such as the Generalife in the Alhambra in Southern Iberia.
context_section_description: An acequia (Spanish: [aˈθekja]) or séquia (Valencian: [ˈsɛkia]) 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. Examples of acequias in New Mexico have lengthy historical roots to Pueblo and Hispano communities, and they are incorporated into traditions including the matachines, life in the Rio Grande Bosque of the Albuquerque metropolitan area, and pilgrimages to El Santuario de Chimayo.
  The term can also refer to the long central pool in a Moorish garden, such as the Generalife in the Alhambra in Southern Iberia.
caption: Concrete-lined portion of La Canova acequia, near Velarde, New Mexico
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