Agroaldea
Its author is the official chronicler of La Aldea, Francisco Suarez Moreno, and it is presented in the Casa Museo Leon y Castillo Telde, coinciding with the celebration of World Water Day.
This work will be an important contribution to the history and mining not only water but Canarias world, because our water mines, now forgotten and confused with galleries carved into the cliffs, as a link,, hitherto unknown, mining water technology, Qanats type excavated from protohistoric times from East Asia to America.
This connection is studied in depth in the first part of this book, the second part is dedicated to the study, by districts, of each 106 this author has found beneath our ravines especially in East, South and Southwest of Gran Canaria, with greater density in Telde (25).
For the study of these mines, precisely located by geographic coordinates, virtual maps and aerial images, Suarez has had to resort to a hard field work with many local collaborations, over many years, complemented by the query files irrigation communities, historical and the former Provincial Headquarters of Public Works archives and consultation over each place.
Moreno Suarez has made great efforts in the region North, where for its abundance of running waters digging water mines it was not widespread. In his book studies a defunct mine fifteenth century, in the ravine of El Agazal and other 16 more units from Agaete to Arucas, almost all they excavated in the early twentieth century with the expansion of banana plantations.
North presents, With every little detail, Agaete mines (interesting is his work on Chorros), The Agazal-Anzofé and Lomo Guillen (the famous Captain Quesada mine blinded by a flood in 1826) and mines drawn on the Coast Lairaga to capture water fillets were sea by San Felipe, the Payer, Azuaje-San Andrés, Tinoca, the corner…
One of these mines North of Gran Canaria is the extraordinary project designed by Leon and Castillo in 1903, for the coastal area of San Andrés-Quintanilla, studied by Suarez in the final chapter of the book with depth technical details and historical mining in the context of the water market in our region.
'Mine Water in Gran Canaria’ It is a careful editing of high quality, full color, with 260 pages is now available in bookstores at a price of 15 EUR.
Correction and care work has been professor of language and literature of this region José Miguel Perera and editing by Gerardo Henriquez and Jose Chiriviella, manager and engineer of the Island Water Council, respectively.
The author collects hundred informants and collaborators and a thematic and toponymic index that gives greater value to the work for easy location of contents.