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 ...

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

The chinampas represent a cultivation method ... This is where you’ll find the final remnants of the México-Tenochtitlan lake. This shoving off point into the canals is one of the most popular ...

“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 ...