In Mexico City, residents are working to clean up the capital's 'floating gardens' of Xochimilco, one of the city's few remaining canals that date back to Aztec times.
MEXICO CITY, July 17 - In Mexico City, residents are working to clean up the capital's "floating gardens" of Xochimilco, one of the city's few remaining canals that date back to Aztec times.
Plagued by polluted water, predatory fish and the steady encroachment of one of the world's biggest cities, locals are banding together to clear the canals and make this agricultural area economically viable within Mexico's megalopolis. 'Chinampas' are floating beds of farm produce cultivated by the Aztecs in the 14th century to feed the pre-Hispanic city.
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