{"id":43150,"count":1,"description":"An acequia (Spanish:\u00a0[a\u02c8\u03b8ekja]) or s\u00e9quia (Valencian:\u00a0[\u02c8sekia]) is a community-operated waterway used in Spain and former Spanish colonies in the Americas for irrigation. Particularly in Spain, the Andes, northern Mexico, and the modern-day American Southwest, acequias are usually historically engineered canals that carry snow runoff or river water to distant fields.\nThe Spanish word acequia (and Valencian s\u00e9quia) comes from Classical Arabic \"as-s\u0101qiya\", which means \"the water conduit\". The Arabs brought the technology to Spain during their occupation of the Iberian peninsula. The technology was adopted by the Spanish and utilized throughout their conquered lands, except in e.g. Mendoza, Argentina where acequias today run along both sides of all city streets but originally were dug all around by the indigenous Huarpes long before the arrival of the Spanish.\nMost acequias were established more than 200 years ago; many continue to provide a primary source of water for farming and...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/acequia\/","name":"Acequia","slug":"acequia","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/43150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=43150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}