The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acequia \A*ce"qui*a\ ([aum]*s[=a]"k[-e]*[.a]; Sp. A canal or trench for irrigating land. [Sp. Amer.]
Wiktionary
n. (context used in the Southwestern US or in reference to Spain chiefly agriculture English) an acequia#Spanish, an irrigation ditch
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 51
Land area (2000): 0.308283 sq. miles (0.798448 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.308283 sq. miles (0.798448 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00280
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 42.668387 N, 113.595046 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 83350
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Acequia
Wikipedia
An acequia or séquia is a community-operated watercourse 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. It can also refer to the long central pool in a Moorish garden, such as the Generalife in the Alhambra in Southern Iberia.
Acequia may refer to:
- Acequia, a waterway
- Acequia, Colorado, USA
- Acequia, Idaho, USA
- Acequia Madre de Valero, San Antonio, Texas
- Acequia Park, San Antonio, Texas
Usage examples of "acequia".
There were his irrigation boots and a spade for cutting water out of the Acequia del Monte into his back field, or into his apple and plum trees, or into his garden.
Then, blundering about and bellowing like a wounded rhino, he staggered out front and shoveled a big sluiceway in the recently patched ditch bank, allowing almost the entire acequia flow to cascade into his already soggy front vega.
Rather than take the time to cross on the bridge, she waded into the acequia, the water coming only to her knees.
He had been spotted by some little girls en route to Acequia Madre grade school, who chased the beast into a garage and shut the door behind him.
The willow has flourished by sending deep roots into the earth under the acequia, a small water ditch.
Leaving a dozen men with buckets, readily filled from the acequia which turned the old water wheel just across the post of No.
There had been decent spring rains that year and the acequias, the irrigation channels that the Romans had built, ran fresh with icy water.
Heroin continued to seep down into the valley like the water that ran along the acequias from the high Sierra Nevadas.
By noon he was riding a farmland road where the acequias carried the water down along the foot-trodden selvedges of the fields and he stood the horse to water and walked it up and back in the shade of a cottonwood grove to cool it.
Then, blundering about and bellowing like a wounded rhino, he staggered out front and shoveled a big sluiceway in the recently patched ditch bank, allowing almost the entire acequia flow to cascade into his already soggy front vega.
By noon he was riding a farmland road where the acequias carried the water down along the foot-trodden selvedges of the fields and he stood the horse to water and walked it up and back in the shade of a cottonwood grove to cool it.
They rode through a pale wood of willow and sycamore flaked with clay from the high water and they rode past old acequias and small winter fields where the dry husks of corn rattled lightly in the wind and they crossed the river at the Algodones ford.
It's fed by a ditch they call Roybal's ditch that comes off the Acequia Madre del Sur that used to have a headgate on Indian Creek.
He had been spotted by some little girls en route to Acequia Madre grade school, who chased the beast into a garage and shut the door behind him.