Carriedo Fountain

According to José Rizal, the rivers and esteros in Binondo were used as baths, sewers, laundry, fishery, transport, and drinking water.

[1] Francisco Carriedo y Peredo, a native of Santander, Spain and general of the Santa Familia galleon, raised funds to construct the water system of Manila.

The system was constructed a century afterwards through the exhaustive research of the Spanish Franciscan friar Felix Huerta, who was serving as administrator of the San Lazaro Hospital in Manila, using his long-forgotten funds which Huerta tracked down after going through over 300 documents,[3] and pooled capital from some entities purported to include Trinidad de Ayala.

The roundabout was cleared in 1976 due to traffic concerns[4] and the fountain was then transferred to the Balara Filters Park, in front of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) building right after they moved from their office in Arroceros, Manila, in the latter part of the 1970s.

The company commissioned National Artist Napoleon Abueva to replicate the original Carriedo Fountain in the spot where it was relocated.