Join us on a fun-filled journey through the canals of Xochimilco, Mexico City's canal system that stretches 170 km or 110 ...

Brief synthesis The Aztecs built what was to become the capital of their empire on a small island in the Lake of Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. Testimonies from the time of the arrival of the ...

The real Xochimilco — variously translated from the Aztec's Nahuatl language as "garden of flowers" or "place where flowers grow" — is an outlying borough of Mexico City today; one of the ...

The Xochimilco wetlands were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987; five years later, the entire system was designated a protected natural area. None of it has kept axolotl numbers from ...

One of the most classic places to visit in Mexico City is Xochimilco. Since 1930, they’ve been offering tourist trips in trajineras through more than 184 kilometers of waters that integrate the ...

Xochimilco, which UNESCO recognized as a World Heritage Site in 1987, was once part of a vast network of lakes and canals that stretched through the Valley of Mexico, where various Nahuatl ...

The internet’s favorite salamander, only found in the wild in Mexico’s Lake Xochimilco, is critically endangered. Here’s how people are fighting to save them.