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 ...

Residents of Xochimilco created chinampas by building rafts from branches layered with mud. The practice may originate with all cultures like the Toltecs, but by the height of the Aztec empire ...

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 fertile mud from ...