🌿 Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco: Xochimilco
UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Mexico City
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site (1987)
- Located in southern Mexico City, Mexico
- Pre-Hispanic chinampas (floating gardens) still in use
- Part of the surviving lacustrine landscape of the Valley of Mexico
Xochimilco is a borough in southern Mexico City that preserves remnants of the ancient lacustrine environment once characterizing the Valley of Mexico. As part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site designation shared with Mexico City's Historic Centre, Xochimilco represents a significant archaeological and cultural landscape where indigenous agricultural innovations continue to function. The area retains working chinampas—rectangular agricultural plots constructed on shallow lake beds—a system ...