Fascinated by historical descriptions of Mexico-Tenochtitlán, he embarked on this endeavor to "bring Tenochtitlan back ... a system of agriculture on chinampas, small islets that provided food ...

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 ...

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The chinamperos get their name from ‘chinampas,’ the human-made islands of floating gardens on which they farm. It was the Aztecs who discovered that, by layering mud, plants and branches on shallow ...