The word chinampa comes from chinamitl ... When the Spanish arrived in Tenochtitlan in the 16th Century, they were stumped to see roads that were half land and half water, floating farms that ...

From the 14th to the 19th century, Tenochtitlan, and subsequently ... lake of Xochimilco (the southern arm of the great drained lake of Texcoco), some chinampas or ‘floating’ gardens can still be ...

They were crouching on a chinampa, an island that appears to float in Lake Xochimilco, part of a complex ecosystem where the Aztec Empire once flourished. The farmer, Dionisio Eslava, expects a ...

Fascinated by historical descriptions of Mexico-Tenochtitlán, he embarked on this endeavor to "bring Tenochtitlan back ... a ...

“This great system (chinampas) is all that’s left from the lake city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, so I always tell our visitors that Xochimilco is a living archeological zone,” Cruz said.

It’s also one of the last remnants of the interconnected lakes that once surrounded Tenochtitlan ... and human-created floating islands called chinampas. Chinampas are floating gardens that ...

The chinampas in use today go back about a thousand years, to when Aztec farmers began building rectangular fields on top of vast lakes and growing food for what was then the city of Tenochtitlan.

"This great system [chinampas] is all that's left from the lake city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, so I always tell our visitors that Xochimilco is a living archaeological zone," Cruz said. "If we ...