Enduring Acequias: Wisdom of the Land, Knowledge of the Water

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Enduring Acequias Miguel A. Gandert and Enrique R. Lamadrid, Series Editors Querencia is a popular term in the Spanishspeaking world that is used to express a deeply rooted love of place and people. This series promotes a transnational, humanistic, and creative vision of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands based on all aspects of expressive culture, both material and intangible. Also available in the Querencias Series: Chasing Dichos through Chimayó by Don J. Usner Hotel Mariachi: Urban Space and Cultural Heritage in Los Angeles by Enrique R. Lamadrid and Catherine L. Kurland; Photographs by Miguel A. Gandert Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland by Spencer R. Herrera and Levi Romero; Photographs by Robert Kaiser Querencias SERIES Enduring Acequias WISDOM OF THE LAND, KNOWLEDGE OF THE WATER • Juan Estevan Arellano universit y of new mexico press • albuquerque © 2014 by the University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. Published 2014 Printed in the United States of America 19 18 17 16 15 14 1 2 3 4 5 6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Arellano, Juan Estevan. Enduring acequias : wisdom of the land, knowledge of the water / Juan Estevan Arellano. — First edition. pages cm. — (Querencias series) Includes index. ISBN 978-0-8263-5507-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8263-5508-9 (electronic) 1. Irrigation canals and flumes. I. Title. II. Series: Querencias series. TC930.A74 2014 333.9100972—dc23 2014001713 cover photograph: Rich Reid, courtesy of Getty Images cover and interior design: Catherine Leonardo Composed in Minion Pro 11/14.5 Display is Meridien LT Std Medium and Frutiger LT Std Dedicated to the memory of my mentors, who knew what it meant to have such a dignified title as mayordomo de la acequia, none of whom are with us to guide us: Cleofes Vigil from San Cristobal, Andres Martinez from Cañon in Taos, and Pablo Romero from the Acequia del Llano in Dixon. ...