Hundreds of tourists throng the canals of Xochimilco every weekend for a flamboyant display of sombreros, food, music and art. Yet, as they cruise alongside the chinampas, or "floating gardens ...

Chinampas, or man-made islands for crop farming, date back to Aztec times. Skip links Skip to Content ... The chinampas once provided for the 1.5 million Aztecs in Tenochtitlan.

Luis Zambrano, a biologist at UNAM who oversees the chinampas project with the farmers, arrived in Xochimilco in the early 2000s to research the axolotl, or Ambystoma mexicanum.

Luis Zambrano, a biologist at UNAM who oversees the chinampas project with the farmers, arrived in Xochimilco in the early 2000s to research the axolotl, or Ambystoma mexicanum.

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.

On my first day in Mexico City with Tia Stephanie Tours, our historian guide Alfredo explained how the Aztecs had started to build their capital city, Tenochtitlán, on a small island on Texcoco, a ...

Founded in 1325 CE, the city of Tenochtitlan rose to become the capital city of the Aztec Empire. Skip to main content. ABC. ... each with their own chinampas, or 'floating gardens'.

In Mexico City, a 700-year-old Aztec farming technique is giving a sustainable edge to modern agriculture. It was early on a Sunday morning, and I was in the Floating Gardens of Xochimilco, 28km ...

Yet, as they cruise alongside the chinampas, or "floating gardens", most remain oblivious to the fact that they are looking at an ancient engineering wonder. ... They called it Tenochtitlan.