An acequia or séquia is a community-operated watercourse used in Spain and former Spanish colonies in the Americas for irrigation. Acequias are found in parts of Spain, the Andes, northern Mexico, and the modern-day American Southwest.
Potrero Ditch, an acequia, passing near the front of El Santuario de Chimayo
Main acequia, Vallongas, Elche, Valencia, Spain (May 2012)
The Acequia Madre (Mother Ditch), Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2022
Concrete-lined portion of La Canova acequia, near Velarde, New Mexico
New Mexico is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also borders Texas to the east and southeast, Oklahoma to the northeast, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora to the south. New Mexico's largest city is Albuquerque, and its state capital is Santa Fe, the oldest state capital in the U.S., founded in 1610 as the government seat of Nuevo México in New Spain.
Statue of Popé, leader of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The statue, entitled Po'pay, is among two statues depicting New Mexicans at the United States Capitol National Statuary Hall Collection, the other being Dennis Chávez.
"The indigenous people of northern New Mexico" by Balduin Möllhausen, 1861
A Hispano boy in Chamisal, 1940
A homesteader and his children at the New Mexico Fair in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940
