Mexico’s pavilion, inside the biennale’s Arsenale complex, will feature a stripped-down version, much smaller than the 500 square meters (0.12 acres) of a typical chinampa.

The chinampas are among the significant features that led Mexico City’s historic centre and Xochimilco to be recognized as a world heritage site by UNESCO. But any protective measures are up to ...

The chinampas are among the significant features that led Mexico City’s historic center and Xochimilco to be recognized as a world heritage site by UNESCO. But any protective measures are up to ...

The Chinampas of Mexico They are highly productive farm plots surrounded on at least three sides by canals. Created in an ancient drainage project, they were the economic foundation of the Aztec ...

MEXICO CITY — Cassandra Garduño squinted in the sunlight, her pink boots smudged by dirt as she gazed out over her family's chinampa — one of the islands first built up by the Aztecs with ...

Chinampas are floating gardens that once formed a backbone of agriculture in the valley of Mexico. Residents of Xochimilco created chinampas by building rafts from branches layered with mud.

Mexico City’s chinampas, artificial islands first built by the Aztecs, are under threat from spreading urbanization. But a small collection of farmers on the islands are banding together to ...

Its exhibitions focus on axolotl and chinampas, the pre-Hispanic agricultural systems resembling floating gardens that still function in Xochimilco, a neighborhood on Mexico City's outskirts famed ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. ... Chinampas are not only where axolotl lay its eggs, but areas where pre-Hispanic communities grew maize, ...

MEXICO CITY — Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico's most beloved salamander and efforts to prevent its extinction flourished, it was a sneaky god.