Chinampa
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Chinampa is a technique used in Mesoamerican agriculture which relies on small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico. The word chinam
Modern chinampas
Chinampas and canals, 1912.
Trajinera tourist boat in Xochimilco
An example of a modern-day chinampa
Tenochtitlan
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Tenochtitlan, also known as Mexico-Tenochtitlan, was a large Mexican altepetl in what is now the historic center of Mexico City. The exact date of the founding of the city is unclear, but the date 13
Chinampa
…has calculated the size of chinampas using Codex Vergara as a source, finding that they usually measured roughly 30 m × 2.5 m (100 ft × 10 ft). In Tenochtitlan, the chinampas ranged from 90 m × 5 m (300 ft × 20 ft) to 90 m × 10 m (300 ft × 30 ft) They were created by staking out the shallow lake bed and then…
Aerial view of the city recreated by the Portrait of Tenochtitlan project
Ruins of the Templo Mayor, main temple of the Mexica people
The western side of the shallow Lake Texcoco. Tenochtitlan is the southern part of the main island. The northern part is Tlatelolco.
The Tlatelolco Marketplace as depicted at The Field Museum in Chicago.