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Updated: July 8, 2025
The chinampas are formed on the fresh-water mud on each side of the canal of Chalco, from the southeast corner of the city to a point near the ancient village of Mexicalzingo, and for a part of the way they are on both sides of that beautiful but now neglected paséo, Las Vegas; there are also a small number near the causeway of Tacubaya, and in other parts of the marsh; their number might be extended without limit if it was not regulated by the demands of the vegetable market of Mexico.
These islands were called chinampas, and they were often large enough for the proprietor to build a hut in the middle, and live in it with his family.
When looking at one of the largest and best cared for chinampas, the beholder can hardly divest himself of the idea that it is a floating island, and might well have been the residence of Calypso. This is the whole of the story of the chinampas, the most fertile and beautiful little gardens upon the face of the earth.
Laws of Nature not set aside. Mud will not float. The present Chinampas. They never could have been floating Gardens. Relations of the Chinampas to the ancient State of the Lake in the Valley.
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