AQUEDUC

As Spaniards conquered Esquipulas (1530), they were engaged, assisted by enslaved Indians, in civil engineering work in order to make possible the installation of a garrison in the middle of the mountains. Water was missing in Esquipulas. An aqueduct connecting the river El Renacimiento to the square of the Municipalidad was then constructed. A monumental flower-shaped cauldron received water so hard to deliver, allowing the population to supply. One can still admire, just a few miles away, his elegant tiers whose perfect regularity is broken by the presence of an astonishing ogival arc. A more or less identical aqueduct fed Guatemala Ciudad. The aqueduct of Esquipulas carries out its office until 1933, when the city was equipped with a drinking water supply network. It was classified as a historic monument in 1970.