Chorro de quevedo
Cobblestone square built around a public fountain whose water once flowed for over sixty years straight.
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This guide to the plaza at Chorro de Quevedo in Bogotá starts with a silence: no water in the fountain that gave the square its name. It traces back to 1832, when a priest named Francisco Quevedo piped in a public fountain for neighbors to draw water from, and follows the site's earlier claims by the Muisca and by the city's Spanish founder. Listen for how a bridge collapse in 1896 changed the sound of this corner.
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