🌱 Los aztecas cultivaban sobre el lago de Tenochtitlán utilizando chinampas, parcelas construidas con lodo, vegetación y estacas de madera. Un ingenioso sistema agrícola que permitió producir alimentos durante siglos. #Chinampas #Agricultura #México

When the old Mexicans wanted to assemble in a lake they hid staccas in the deep water. They put them together another until they marked a long and long rectangle. About 100 meters long and only a few steps of width. Among the staccas they buried branches and roots as a circle, to close that piece of lake. Then they filled it with layers, made branches and plants of the lake. On top of a layer of ice out of the bottom, then another layer of branches and another layer of ice. On top of the layer they filled it up until it came out of the water. When it was half a meter above, the island was ready. At that island they called it Chinampa. On the other side they raised another layer and on the other side they left the channels where the channels passed. So the lake filled with long islands separated by layers of water. Around each Chinampa they planted wetlands, some high and thin trees. Their roots go down to the water, surrounded between the branches and the lake, and they tie the roots so that the water does not damage them. Their bodies are thick, and they leave the soil alone. To assemble, first they made a semitron, extended the lake on the edge of the channel, they cut it into squares and in each one they put a semitron of corn, fried, chile or pumpkin. When they brought it, they raised each square with their plant and they passed it to Chinampa without cutting the root. In a Chinampa they almost don't have to cut it. The water of the channel goes down and is put on the ground, like the water on a sponge. Although it does not rain, the root always finds humidity. And it is not necessary to buy a good one, with a ball they take out the bottom of the channel. A black knot filled with rotten leaves and pieces of fish. They make it on the Chinampa, they extend it and they give it the seed. That's why the land never gets tired and gives various seeds to the year. On these islands they are cultivated good part of the Tenochtitlan food. And today, 500 years later, in the channels of Xochimilco, it still feels like this.