Desagüe
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desag-e-202-11192560
title:
Desagüe
text:
The Desagüe was the hydraulic engineering project to drain Mexico's central lake system in order to protect the capital from persistent and destructive flooding. Begun in the sixteenth century and completed in the late nineteenth century, it has been deemed “the greatest engineering project of colonial Spanish America." Historian Charles Gibson goes further and considers it “one of the largest engineering enterprises of pre-industrial society anywhere in the world.” There had been periodic floo
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Massive drainage and water management project around Mexico City
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desag%C3%BCe
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date modified:
2024-03-09T20:36:55Z
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