A study from the University of Cambridge reveals that the pre-Hispanic communities of the Colombian Caribbean built an advanced hydraulic system of raised fields and canals that spanned 500,000 hectares, allowing for water management to mitigate floods and droughts in a self-sufficient manner, and suggests that this development was the result of community cooperation rather than the imposition of centralized leadership. (translated)
El gigantesco sistema hidráulico que protegió durante siglos a las comunidades prehispánicas de inundaciones y sequías
