Chinampa

Chinampas is a way of growing crops that originated in Mesoamerica. It is done by making small areas of fertile land on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico.

The United Nations made it a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System in 2018.

Chinampa 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 in Xochimilco

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