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Madeira’s system of irrigation channels, known as levadas, carries water down from the mountains on gentle gradients and provides a ready-made system of trails.
The levadas were largely built by slave laborers from Africa, whose primary employment was on sugar plantations.
The problem of watering crops was solved by the irrigation system known as levadas — simply-designed water channels that wound down from water sources on the verdant mountain tops.