Xochimilco

/ ˌkɒtʃɪˈmɪlkəʊ /

noun

1. a town in central Mexico, on Lake Xochimilco: noted for its floating gardens. Pop: 364 647 (2000)

Example Sentences

The waters of Xochimilco - shaped by traditional farming practices and flushed with spring water from the mountains - used to teem with these amphibians.

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The scientists released their captive-bred animals at two sites - one in Xochimilco and one at a disused quarry that, over decades, has turned into what they called an "artificial wetland".

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Xochimilco, a borough of Mexico City, is home to the last remaining canals from the once-extensive lake and waterway system that covered the Valley of Mexico before Spanish colonization.

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In the contemporary, helter-skelter sweep of Mexico City, there is one place — in the southern borough of Xochimilco — where a vision of a watery, pre-Columbian capital may still be imagined.

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Studies show that Xochimilco’s canals are shrinking and heavily contaminated.

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