c/historyruins · by PugJesus@lemmy.world · 1yCantalloc Aqueducts, Peru 81 points · 3 comments · view on lemmy.world
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TIN@feddit.uk · 17 pts · 1y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantalloc_Aqueducts
thonofpy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
How do they work?
TRBoom@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puquios
Apparently they dig a shaft down to the water table at a higher elevation and then tunnel from there to where they want the water to go.