#chinampa — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #chinampa, aggregated by home.social.
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In #MexicoCity’s precolonial canals, scientists aim to save ancient salamanders https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/in-mexico-citys-precolonial-canals-scientists-aim-to-save-ancient-salamanders/
"The rickety rowboat has been traveling for about half an hour through #Xochimilco, a borough in southern #Mexico City, past canals, ditches and meadows when it docks... Vegetables are grown on this #chinampa, a strip of farmland originating back in the #Aztec era. In a shallow ditch, work is underway to protect an authentic inhabitant of this place: the Mexican #axolotl"