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 the bottom of a lake that, later drained, would one day become Mexico City.

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Mexico City's floating gardens have fed people for hundreds of years. Now they're threatened

The chinampas are among the significant features that led Mexico City’s historic centre to become a heritage site

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Mexico City’s floating gardens were built by the Aztecs – now they are under threat

Mexico City's chinampas, artificial islands first built by the Aztecs hundreds of years ago, are under threat from encroaching urbanization.

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Mexico City’s floating gardens have fed people for hundreds of years. Now they’re threatened

Cassandra Garduno 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 the bottom of a lake that, later drained, would one day become Mexico City.

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — 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 the bottom of a lake that, later drained

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Mexico City's chinampas, artificial islands first built by the Aztecs hundreds of years ago, are under threat from encroaching urbanization. Low prices for farmers’ produce are forcing more  &hellip;

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Mexico City’s floating gardens have fed people for hundreds of years. Now they’re threatened - The Morning Sun

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — 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 the bottom of a lake that, later drained, would one day become Mexico City. Food from these islands has fed people for hundreds of years, but the chinampas are under threat from urbanization. The produce grown here doesn’t fetch much money…

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