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Article: The Acequias of the North.
- Article from:
- The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
- Article date:
- March 20, 2006
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Byline: Juliana Henao
Mar. 20--EMBUDO -- Estevan Arellano, 58, remembers when he bathed with his cousins and brothers in the acequia his family had next to their vegetable fields filled with chiles, corn and peppers.
He was born and raised on this land -- 15 miles north of Velarde and Pilar, above the road that leads toward Taos -- and lives there still today.
Since he was very little his aunt and uncle, Carlos Arellano and Lucia Borrego de Arellano, took him under their wing and cared for him as a son, he says he saw his uncle take care of the acequia passing through their land while his aunt would tend to the crops.
Acequias are part ...