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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mexico City's chinampas, artificial islands first built by the Aztecs hundreds of years ago, are under threat from encroaching ...

With its expanse of buildings and concrete, Mexico City may not look squishy—but it is. Ever since the Spanish conquistadors drained Lake Texcoco to make way for more urbanization, the land has been ...

MEXICO CITY — It’s 4 p.m. on a recent Sunday afternoon, and a pavilion of towering windows in a Mexico City urban park is nearly packed. The public is diverse, but everyone here wants the same thing: ...

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, narrow ...

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MEXICO CITY — It's 4 p.m. on a recent Sunday afternoon, and a pavilion of towering windows in a Mexico City urban park is nearly packed. The public is diverse, but everyone here wants the same thing: ...