page_title: Baths of Chapultepec
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Baths of Chapultepec / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Interior view of the little pool or Moctezuma´s bath, located in the Bosque de Chapultepec in Mexico City, southeast side of the hill of Chapultepec, photo taken on October 23, 2010. Español: Vista del interior de la alberca chica o Baños de Moctezuma, ubicada en el Bosque de Chapultepec en la ciudad de México, costado suroriente del cerro de Chapultepec, foto tomada el 23 de octubre del 2010.
context_page_description: The Baths of Chapultepec as a series of deposits used from the pre-Columbian period until the beginning of the 20th century, to houses the waters of the springs of the hill of Chapultepec that served to provide drinking water to Mexico City. Among the remains of these are the so-called Baths of Moctezuma in Chapultepec which was recently remodeled, and the remains of some colonial baths in the Well 5 or Manantial Chico of Chapultepec.
context_section_description: The baths were made of masonry and lime, of the several that existed there are only information available from three of them, which had the following names:
  Alberca Grande or Alberca de los Llorones.
  Alberca de los Nadadores.
  Alberca Chica or Alberca de Moctezuma (the Baths of Moctezuma)
  The Alberca Grande (Large Bath) located in what would now be the boundary fence between the forest and the Avenue of los Constituyentes was rectangular in shape, 17.47 m long and 1.39 m wide with a depth of 2.67 m or 12 m deep, this was used for irrigation in the Tacubaya area and belonged to the Count of Peñasco.
  The Alberca de los Nadadores ( the Swimmer's Bath) was even more extensive but of less depth, it was located more to the east and was the first public swimming bath or spa (as it is told in Mexico City) in Mexico City.
  The Alberca Chica or Alberca de Moctezuma (Small Bath or the Moctezuma's Bath) was the highest height with respect to Mexico City and it is very likely that the oldest, from this goes the pipes for aqueducts, for it was the only one of which we know the years of its renovation, (1548, 1571, 1714, and 1870), thanks to a series of lap of which were in a quarter of a pump situated at its side to provide service to the Castle of Chapultepec, these reconstructions made the bath out each time smaller and more high, this bath was studied in 1974 by archaeologists Ruben Cabrera, María Antonieta Cervantes and Felipe Solís, who found six boxes inside each other, which were reducing in size, the oldest one, which was very destroyed, was about 15 m long and was square with rounded corners, until the fourth there are traces of baked brick, dated in 1870, with the fifth and sixth there is the use of cement, this last one that could be seen before its reconstruction in 2010, had 5.70 m by side concrete ceiling and glass, a staircase of iron, at its entrance towards south was the room of bombs.
caption: View inside the Alberca Chica or Alberca de Moctezuma after its remodeling in 2010.
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