One of the last remaining communities still farming like the Aztecs

The village of San Gregorio Atlapulco is one of the only remaining communities that farms in the Aztec-era agricultural tradition. Located in Mexico City’s Xochimilco municipality, San Gregorio Atlapulco is home to vast fields known as chinampas, small islands which are connected by canals used for irrigation and transportation of crops and labor. Tenochtitlan, the Aztec island capital located in the middle of the Lake of Texcoco, was once fed by an integrated, complex system of chinampas....

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