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The Cantalloc Aqueducts are a series of aqueducts located 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) west of the city of Nazca, Peru, built by the Nazca culture.More than 40 aqueducts were built, which were used all year round.
The Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewers Authority (PRASA; Spanish: Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico) is a water company and the government-owned corporation responsible for water quality, management, and supply in Puerto Rico, a US insular area. [1]
The garden is located in Bogotá and features plants from every Colombian altitude, climate and region. It was founded in 1955, in honor of botanist and astronomer José Celestino Mutis . The municipally owned park is famous nationwide and is a member of the internationally known BGCI (Botanic Gardens Conservation International).
The Acueducto de Ponce (Ponce Aqueduct), formally Acueducto Alfonso XII, [4] is the name of a historic 2.5-mile [2] gravity-based water supply system in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico. It was designed in 1875 by Timoteo Luberza and built the following years. [5] This aqueduct was the first modern water distribution system built in Puerto Rico. [6]
The Chapultepec aqueduct (in Spanish: acueducto de Chapultepec) was built to provide potable water to Tenochtitlan, now known as Mexico City. Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Triple Aztec Alliance empire (formed in 1428 and ruled by the Mexica, the empire joined the three Nashua states of Tenochtitlan, Texacoco, and Tlacopan). [1]