Water Paths in Portuguese America: The Mariana Water Supply Network in the 18th Century
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https://doi.org/10.17561/at.v1i3.1418Abstract
This article examines the water supply network built in the Brazilian city of Mariana in the second half of the 18th century. Mariana was the only city of the captaincy of Minas Gerais in that period to be part of Portuguese America´s gold circuit. The water supply service to the city was developed more than half a century after the town was founded, when the câmara or city council —the local body responsible for administering the municipality— financed the infrastructure necessary to supply water for urban consumption. Our analysis focuses mainly on the construction phase, the physical infrastructure and the resources used to manage the water supply service. The câmaras work contracts and the material remains of the network system constitute the sources tapped for this research.
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