[6] The Aqueduct (or, more precisely, its conduit channel at its highest elevation point in Barrio Mameyes) was known as El Puente de los Suicidios (Bridge of the suicides).

[9] The most iconic part of the aqueduct, its reservoir, it located on the Cerro San Tomas hill, next to sector Mameyes, in the Barrio La Cantera in the city of Ponce.

[16] The watershed for the Acueducto de Ponce water supply system consisted of about 30 square kilometers of the valley of the Rio Portugués river.

[17] In 1915, in the part of the watershed nearest the aqueduct intake there were some 50 houses, five stables, two dairies, and a coffee hacienda.

[20] It was later enlarged to 4,100 meters, but was eventually decommissioned, under the mayoral administration of Guillermo Vivas Valdivieso, when a new, pump-based, water supply system was inaugurated.

[23] The intake dam for the aqueduct was located at Río Portugués, about 1 kilometer north of the mouth of Rio Chiquito.

The insular government at the time estimated that the reservoir held a one day's supply of water for the city residents which then consisted of a population of 35,000.

[25] With the advent of more advanced water supply systems, the aqueduct was retired in 1928, and eventually abandoned.

In 2015, however, Puerto Rico senator Víctor Vasallo Anadón presented a bill in the Puerto Rico Senate to enact legislation to designate the aqueduct a historic structure worth preserving and secure funds for its preservation.