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@cicerone imposter,

Well, it's a Spanish aqueduct.
There are lots in Mexico.

In México city there's the Acueducto de Guadalupe and the chunk of Acueducto Bucareli that remains near Chapultepec.

I pass by this part of the old Chapultepec aqueduct every night, when I go from the office to my house:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/ChapultepecAqueduct2DF.JPG/240px-ChapultepecAqueduct2DF.JPG

This is how it looked like about 120 years ago:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RrPtLLGT16E/Sd6gEr41eNI/AAAAAAAABjk/YVpi9vuCslE/s400/Acueducto+Bucareli.png

Other Mexican cities have great aqueducts.

Querétaro:

http://www.queretaroguide.com.mx/images/acue.jpg

Morelia:

Zacatecas:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5017/5510662748_3a589e3137.jpg

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@fbaezer,

This is a picture I took in Salamanca, Spain, in the late 90's.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v97/imposter222/TAK-PC/Pictures/1996%20Spain_%20Portugal_%20Gibraltar%20_%20Tangiers/img141-1.jpg

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@cicerone imposter,

As you see, there are many similarities.

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@fbaezer,

That's what I noticed, because many parts of Europe still has Roman aquaducts - and they're still in use!

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Well, we have visited the suburban counties west and northwest of Mexico City. A sea of middle-class neighborhoods with a few working class islands.
Now we move north of Mexico City. These suburban counties are a sea of working class neighborhoods, with a few middle class islands.

Tultitlán, mostly lower-middle class:

http://www.vanguardia.com.mx/XStatic/vanguardia/images/espanol/TULTITLan-catedral.jpg

Here, during a flood:

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/img/2011/09/Pri/INUNDACION.JPG

Tultepec, proud fireworks maker:

http://img.ibtimes.com/spanish/data/images/full/2012/01/26/16967-explotan-5-polvorines-en-tultepec.jpg

About once every two or three year, a workshop explodes, leaving one or two dead:

http://i.esmas.com/image/0/000/004/511/tultepec3NT_.jpg

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Ecatepec is a densely populated working class county; 1.6 million inhabitants:

http://www.redboxinnovation.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Ecatepec.jpeg

These neighborhoods only get their picture taken when there's a flood, it seems:

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBFwcG7Z5w_k6Sb8lAoLCcd0uO9ZSxAn3x6kgopynO0ruXkhvO

The church of San Cristóbal Ecatepec:

This kind of sculptures were made as part of the merchandising of new housing developments in the 60s:

Mexican Independence hero José María Morelos was exsecuted in Ecatepec. The site is now a House of Culture:

The Community Center:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSrkFXS5S0ADplW_VArkkrshYAo4ekJk9nd-YZBhQNq4FzdhR8LUA

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East of Ecatepec, we find Coacalco:

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/9338/coacalco1.jpg

Not much to say, as you can see:

http://safe-img04.olx.com.mx/ui/12/74/10/1342719285_416917410_2-Fotos-de--COACALCO-LOS-SABINOS-II-VENDO-DEPARTAMENTO-GRANDE.jpg

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Northeast of Coacalco, the county of Acolman.
Acolman was founded by the Tezcocan people in the XII Century.
It has an interesting former convent, built in the XVI Century.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BrYPzKXVlao/S-tSIrWn9LI/AAAAAAAAABk/C93TnxVGbO8/s1600/Imagen11.jpg

http://www.inah.gob.mx/images/stories/Multimedia/Paseos_virtuales_home/Museos/ex_convento_acolman_pv.jpg

http://m5.i.pbase.com/g1/49/586449/3/113817345.l7F7LNug.jpg

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Northeast of Acolman, in the outsakirts of the Metropolitan Zone, the ruins of Teotihuacan, the place where Gods were made.

Teotihuacan was the center of the Toltec culture. The city was built between 200 BC and 100 AD

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/SSA41434.JPG/800px-SSA41434.JPG

(I'll post again tomorrow... some big news in Mexico force me to get 100% back into work)

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@fbaezer,

Wow! I would really love to visit Teotihuacan. That looks real awesome!

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@cicerone imposter,

I've been there a couple of times, it is awesome in the best sense.

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Teotihuacan.

The Citadel, which was the center of th city:

http://www.turismoenfotos.com/archivos/temp/3526/400_1246750380_la-ciudadela-teotihuacan-mexico.jpg

The temple of Quetzalcóatl inside the Citadel:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Teotihaucan-3027.jpg/800px-Teotihaucan-3027.jpg

You see Tláloc and Quetzalcóatl alternating in this monument:

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Teotihuacan, the Avenue of the Dead, the sacred city main street, about a mile and a half long, with ruins at both sides of the road:

http://www.turiguide.com/images/Calzada-de-los-Muertos.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3648/3391544770_e53a7cff9b_z.jpg

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The imposing Pyramid of the Sun:

http://cimati.com/images/piramides/PIR-SOL.jpg

http://domusapientiae.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/piramide20del20solteo.jpg

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The Palace of Quetzalpapalotl (of the Butterfly-Bird:

http://tienda.artehistoria.net/tienda/banco/jpg/AMP10143.jpg

http://www.uv.es/~vento/aztecs/images/teo3c.gif

http://www.oocities.org/jwong/teoth9.jpg

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The Pyramid of the Moon:

http://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/assets/images/destinos/teotihuacan/piramide_luna_teotihuacan.jpg

The Plaza of the Moon:

http://www.eluniversaledomex.mx/fotos/01-Teo-OmarBarcenas.jpg

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It doesn't take that long to get to Teotihuacan from downtown Mexico City, about 45 minutes.
This is because you're going against the flux of heavy traffic.

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@cicerone imposter,

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Wow! I would really love to visit Teotihuacan. That looks real awesome!

It is awesome what slave labor accomplished and was devoted to the Gods is it not? Rolling Eyes

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@reasoning logic,

I'd say it's awesome, rl.

If we were to consider that every unjustice done in humankind's works makes them worthless, we would have nothing to admire. We would be so surly!

If we were to disdain and destroy the past, instead of trying to learn from it, we'd go back to barbarianism. Think Cambodia under Pol Pot.

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@fbaezer,

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If we were to consider that every unjustice done in humankind's works makes them worthless, we would have nothing to admire. We would be so surly!

If we were to disdain and destroy the past, instead of trying to learn from it, we'd go back to barbarianism. Think Cambodia under Pol Pot.

I agree with you and I find value in it but I also have an interest in how it all came about regardless if it goes against what I think is moral.

I truly do not have a good understanding of it's history so all that I have to share are my observations and hope that others will add to what I think I understand.

Sociopathic societies prospered very well from what I have seen because they had no conscientious to stop them from making immoral decisions. It was all about the numbers to them.

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