EASTERN WATER

The HISTORIAN DIANA URIBE DEFINES ARABS AND MUSLIMS like "poets of the water" and "constructors of landscapes with rivers, curtains and veils of water".
The Vicachá River, then named San Francisco River, was the original limit of Bogota at the north. The building of La Quinta Portocarrero in 1800´s included a river shunt that crossed all the property and continued like an aqueduct to the neighbourhood of Las Nieves.

This mozarabic tradition, taken and transmitted by the Spaniards, could be seen from the pool located in the north-eastern corner where the water falls by different branches, spurts and little pits, filling all the space with the freshness and the sound of falling water, that feeds plants, bushes and centennial species.

From East also comes the tradition of stone roads and the bone incrustations well used in the entrance ridge in more recent times, that contrast in its slab coldness with the freshness of the water and the green surrounding.

Richard Vaxell, an official of the British Legion, mentions La Quinta in his chronicle from 1829: "the garden that surrounds it is full of flowers of all species, but especially roses. And it is irrigated by fountains which are filled by the springs of mountains".

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