Cassandra Garduno cuts Mexican marigold flowers known as cempasuchil she grew in her floating garden (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) From ...

The wandering tribe decided to settle down and build their capital city ... colonial writers tell us that the Aztecs came up with a genius plan: the chinampas. They artificially constructed ...

farmers like Miguel de Valle still farm by hand on the chinampas, artificial islands first built by the predecessors of the Aztecs from the mud of what was then a vast shallow lake. Two people ...

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.

They constitute a type of agricultural system created by the Aztecs and today practiced by traditional farmers known as ...

But as the Aztecs soon discovered, the valley’s boggy, lake-filled landscape was difficult to cultivate or build on. So they devised an ingenious plan to adapt to the surroundings: the chinampas. A ...

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 ...

Chinampas are part of an agricultural system developed during the Aztec Empire in shallow lakes or marshes in the southern valley of what is today Mexico City. The system consists of elevated ...

But as the Aztecs soon discovered, the valley's boggy, lake-filled landscape was difficult to cultivate or build on. So they devised an ingenious plan to adapt to the surroundings: the chinampas.