DESIGN FOR AN AQUEDUCT IN MEXICO, XVIIITH CENTURY

DESIGN FOR AN AQUEDUCT IN MEXICO, XVIIITH CENTURY

Maestro Juan Antonio Delgado, 26 February 1786. One leave. Detailed project of the construction of an aqueduct by Juan Antonio Delgado, chief architect of the city of Tehuacan (Puebla). He was commissioned by the provincial government and the village of Coxcatlan to provide the design of an aqueduct that communicated the points Atlapexco and Yaitepec over a ravine. Until that moment the only means for carrying water to both sides had been with an old and useless’ ‘canoa’, -- a narrow wooden channel made out of a hollowed out tree trunk that served as an aqueduct. In his architectural plan Delgado provides the detailed measurements for his aqueduct of one arch and the total costs individualizing those of the materials and salaries.