La Historia Real de Xochimilco | Lo que Quedó del Imperio Azteca en la Ciudad de México

The trajineras, the mariachis, the weekend families. What Mexicans see in Xochimilco is the only surviving piece of Tenochtitlán. The chinampas are not a quaint folk tradition. They are 700-year-old Aztec hydraulic engineering that still produces food today within the largest city in Latin America. The canals you cross in a trajinera are the Aztec Empire's irrigation system, still functioning. And it's disappearing. Of the 9,000 hectares of chinampas that existed when the Spanish arrived, only 1,800 remain. The axolotl—the sacred amphibian of the Aztecs that appears on the 50-peso coin—is on the verge of extinction in the canals of Xochimilco, with fewer than 1,000 individuals left in the wild. The place where Mexicans go to relax on Sundays is the last living connection to the world that existed before the conquest. And almost no one knows it. 📌 Subscribe to The Unknown Roots and turn on notifications. 🔔 More videos from the channel: ▸ The True History of the Zócalo | What Lies Buried Beneath Your Feet ▸ The True History of Chapultepec Forest ▸ The Cathedral Mexico Built Upon an Empire | 1600 AD 📚 Sources: ▸ Teresa Rojas Rabiela — "Chinampa Agriculture" ▸ UNAM — Xochimilco Axolotl Project, reports 2018-2023 ▸ UNESCO — Xochimilco World Heritage Site Dossier 1987 ▸ INAH — Archaeological studies of the lake zone of the Valley of Mexico Hashtags: #Xochimilco #HistoryOfMexico #MexicoCity #Aztecs #Chinampas #Axolotl #TheUnknownRoots #HiddenMexico #HistoricalDocumentary #TrueHistory