#acequia

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.

Irrigation ditch, Bernalillo, New Mexico