Hohokam irrigation canals
Red de canales hohokam
- Date
- c. 700 · confidence medium
- Place
- Pueblo Grande, Phoenix, Arizona, United States
- Credited to
- Hohokam culture
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
More than 800 km of canals carrying water from the Salt River to fields of maize, cotton and beans in the heart of the Sonoran Desert. It was the largest irrigation system in pre-Columbian America north of Mexico.
An Indigenous contribution.
What it led to
- intensive farming in the desert
- routes reused by the modern canals of Phoenix