Elevador de Aguas de Gordejuela
Ruins · Spain
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 1903
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 28.399, -16.586
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
El Elevador de Aguas de Gordejuela, also known as Casa Hamilton, is an industrial ruin near Los Realejos, Tenerife. It was built in 1903 by the Hamilton company to pump water from the Gordejuela springs to banana plantations in the Orotava Valley. The system used the first steam engine on Tenerife.