Restoring an ancient lake from the rubble of an unfinished airport in Mexico City. Plans for Mexico's $1 billion Lake Texcoco Ecological Park reflect a new paradigm in urban design.

Tenochtitlán was an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521. Built on an island on Lake Texcoco, it had a system of canals and causeways that supplied the hundreds of thousands of ...

From jaguars to shooting stars, these rare and meaningful Náhuatl names are steeped in centuries of culture, cosmic symbolism ...

According to archaeologists, this artificial waterway connected to Lake Texcoco and functioned as a sort of aquatic highway for small boats. María de Lourdes López Camacho, an INAH researcher and ...

Mexico-Tenochtitlán, once an unassuming settlement in the middle of Lake Texcoco, is now a bustling metropolis. It is the capital of an empire ruling over, and receiving tribute from, more than ...

Before the Spanish conquest in 1521, Mexico City, then called Tenochtitlán, was built on two small islands inside Lake Texcoco. The Aztecs built canals and floating farms called chinampas to feed ...

At the center of the emerging park is Lake Texcoco, a historic reservoir that’s largely drained — but if replenished could provide some relief from the city’s water crisis.

Mexico celebrates the registration of Lake Texcoco as its first Ecohydrology Demonstration Site by UNESCO, a designation approved by the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the ...