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While the tail end of monsoon season hardly comes with gratitude for an abundance of water, it does call to mind some splashy local history.
The city of Phoenix exists in large part due to the sophisticated irrigation system first created by the indigenous Hohhokam people who inhabited the region for a scant 650 years beginning in 800 C.E.
At the center of their thriving metropolis was an advanced canal system that supplied water throughout the Sonoran Desert and literally made life there possible.
Keen on glimpsing remnants of this extant civilization? Head to the S’edav Va’aki Museum Foundation.
– Hannah Van Sickle, The Arizona 100