| With the mild climate and ample water for irrigation, the chinampas yielded multiple harvests each year. |
| The chinampas were rectangular raised platforms built on a strong framework of posts, sticks, and tree branches anchored firmly to the lake bed and filled with earth. |
| The chinampas were an ingenious solution to a dilemma that had vexed the inhabitants of the Valley of Mexico for more than a millennium. |
| Here ingenuity led to more advanced ways of growing food, by covering rafts of branches and roots with earth to create chinampas or floating gardens. |
| By the end of the 16th century, they filled in many of the chinampas and canals, expanded the island's land area, and built elevated roadways. |
| In the Valley of Mexico the chinampas benefited from a remarkable system of control of water that is only now being studied with any care. |
