Donatella Davanzo

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Anthropologist and photographer Donatella Davanzo is a doc-toral student at the University of New Mexico who specializes in acequia cultures and systems as well as Southwestern Na-tive cultures and Route 66. She lives in Albuquerque.

Articles by Donatella Davanzo

How The Middle Eastern Irrigation Ditch Called Acequia Changed The American Southwest

How The Middle Eastern Irrigation Ditch Called Acequia Changed The American Southwest

Written by Gerald Zarr // Photography by Donatella Davanzo
When Spanish settlers came to America’s Southwest in the late 1500s, they brought a much older irrigation practice that both distributed water and organized communities: the acequia. Today, nearly 1,000 of them are still flowing.
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