Chinampas

Chinampas is a way of growing crops that originated in Mesoamerica. It is done by making small areas of fertile land

Chinampas Media

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  modern chinampas

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  The lake system within the Valley of Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire, showing distribution of the chinampas.

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  Aztec maize agriculture as depicted in the Florentine Codex with the cultivator using a digging stick

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  Chinampas and canals, 1912.

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  Trajinera tourist boat in Xochimilco

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  An example of a modern-day chinampa

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  One of the remaining Chinampas (farm island) — in Xochimilco.

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  An example of cattle feeding on the grasses of dried chinampas lands