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	Unique Facts about Mexico: The Aztec
		Their capital was Tenochtitlan on the shore of Lake Texcoco – the site of modern-day Mexico City.
		According to legend, the various groups who were to become the Aztecs arrived from the north into the Anahuac valley around Lake Texcoco.
		When they arrived at an island in the lake, they saw an eagle eating a snake while perched on a nopal cactus, a vision that fulfilled a prophecy telling them that they should found their new home on that spot.
	www.sheppardsoftware.com /Mexicoweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Mexico6.htm (1911 words)

	Lake Texcoco
		Located on a small island on the middle of Lake Texcoco, the layout of the city forced the Aztecs to build artificial islands and create a series of canals to allow the growth of the metropolis.
		In fact, although the lake was salty, dams built by the Aztecs kept the city surrounded by cl...
		Texcoco was founded in the 12th century, on the shore of Lake Texcoco.
	www.experiencefestival.com /lake_texcoco (2526 words)

	Lake Texcoco - Definition, explanation
		It occupied a great extension of the Anahuac valley, forming part of system of five lakes, between 2,270 and 2,750 meters above sea level, in the northern part of the Mexican highlands.
		Under the direction of Enrico Martínez (Spanish version of Heinrich Martin), a drain was built to control the level of the lake, but in 1629 another inundation kept most of the city covered for five years.
		The lake now occupies only a small area surrounded by salt marshes 2 1/2 mi (4 km) east of Mexico City.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/l/la/lake_texcoco.php (419 words)

	HISTORY OF MEXICO - NEZAHUALCOYOTL: TEXCOCO'S PHILOSOPHER KING - BY JIM TUCK IN MEXICO CONNECT
		The latter settled at the eastern end of Lake Texcoco and from then on became known as Texcocans, completely shedding their original name.
		Given this high cultural level, it is not surprising that Texcoco became known as "the Athens of the Western World" -- to quote the historian Boturini.
		His deathbed reverie would have been far less serene had he foreseen the arrival, in 47 years, of white-skinned invaders from across the seas who would snuff out the civilization of which he was such a brilliant representative.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/history/jtuck/jtnezahualcoyotl.html (1007 words)

	Earth Island Institute: Earth Island Journal, Autumn 2001
		Mexico's National Biodiversity Commission has designated the restored Lake Texcoco a "critical bird conservation area." Migratory birds from all over North America flock to Lake Texcoco where they winter, nest or stop over during their annual journeys.
		Constructing an airstrip on Lake Texcoco's muddy, salty and compressible soil would be like building on jello.
		If Mexico builds a giant airport at Lake Texcoco, birds will be eradicated and their habitat destroyed to protect air travelers.
	www.earthisland.org /EIJOURNAL/new_articles.cfm?articleID=265&journalID=48 (690 words)

	Tenochtitlan
		The city was largely destroyed in the 1520s by Spanish conquistadors, Mexico City was erected on top of the ruins and, over the ensuing centuries, most of Lake Texcoco has gradually been drained.
		It was not until the arrival of the Aztecs, a tribe of people who came in from the west, that the area acquired its importance.
		After a flood of Lake Texcoco, the city was rebuilt in a style that made it one of the grandest ever in Mesoamerica under Emperor Auitzotl.
	www.latinartmall.com /Tenochtitlan.htm (0 words)

	Lake Texcoco
		The lake was formed on a closed basin, with no drains, so it was salty.
		Tenochtitlán was founded on an islet in the western part of the lake in the year 1325.
		Eventually the lake was drained, via channels and a tunnel to the Pánuco River, but even that could not stop innundations, since by then most of the city was under the phreatic level.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/la/lake_texcoco.html (381 words)

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		Tenochtitlan was founded on an islet in the western part of the lake in the year 1325.
		Eventually the lake was drained, via channels and a tunnel to the PÃ¡nuco River, but even that could not stop floods, since by then most of the city was under the phreatic level.
		The modern Texcoco lake has a high concentration of salts, and its waters are evaporated for their processing.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Lake_Texcoco (745 words)

	Aztec Civilization - New World Encyclopedia Preview
		The Aztec were said to be guided by their god Huitzilopochtli, meaning "left-handed hummingbird." When they arrived at an island in the lake, they saw an eagle eating a snake while perched on a nopal cactus, a vision that fulfilled a prophecy telling them that they should found their new home on that spot.
		In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, around Lake Texcoco in the Anahuac valley, the most powerful of these city states were Culhuacan to the south and Azcapotzalco to the west.
		Although the lake was salty, dams built by the Aztecs kept the city surrounded by clear water from the rivers that fed the lake.
	www.newworldencyclopedia.org /preview/Aztec_Civilization (8443 words)

	The migration miracle at Lake Texcoco (Edo. Méx.) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The sanctuary they come to is Lake Texcoco, now made up of three beautiful lakes recreated on the deepest part of the original lake bed.
		Around 1000 A.C. the shores of Lake Texcoco were inhabited by numerous tribes who lived off the bounty of the lake.
		Lake Texcoco was gradually reduced to died-up, barren terrain, leaving only a few pools which refilled during the rainy season.
	www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx /english/naturaleza/otras_areas_naturales_prot/detalle.cfm?idpag=413&idsub=0&idsec=9 (1154 words)

	ipedia.com: Lake Texcoco Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The lake was formed on a closed basin, with no drains, so it was saltyy.
		To overcome the problems of drinking water, the Aztecs build a system of dams to separe the salty waters of the lake, with the rain water of the afluents.
		During the siege of Tenochtitlán, the dams were destroyed, and never rebuilt, so inundations became a big problem for the new Mexico City built over Tenochtitlán.
	www.ipedia.com /lake_texcoco.html (425 words)

	Texcoco de Mora, Mexico
		Founded on the edge of the lake of the same name (today dried-up), the town rivalled Tenochtitlán, the Aztec metropolis which had been built on an island in what was then a lake.
		Today Texcoco, conveniently situated not far to the north-west of Mexico City, is a trading centre for woollen clothing, ceramics and glass with a surrounding area which boasts many archaeological sites and artistic treasures from the colonial period.
		Finally in 1428 the Tepanecs were defeated by an alliance between the Mexica and Texcoco and the kingdom of Texcoco was restored in 1431.
	www.planetware.com /mexico/texcoco-de-mora-mex-mex-txm.htm (500 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Chipman, Moctezuma's Children
		Lake Texcoco lay in the center and received water from Lake Xaltocan in the north and Lake Xochimilco in the south.
		Accordingly, Lake Texcoco, as "the ultimate destination of all drainage, was extremely saline." Xochimilco was about nine feet (three meters) higher than Texcoco and contained the freshest water, especially along its southern shore, which contained numerous springs.
		The water in Lake Texcoco was always too saline to be potable, and the constant disturbance of the lake's silt-laden bottom made it exceedingly turbid for other domestic uses.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exchimoc.html (8297 words)

	Lake Texcoco
		The geography of the Aztecs in Lake Texcoco and the geographical setting of the Inca civilization in the Andes mountains were both environmental challenges...
		The island was located in the Lake Texcoco, which the Aztecs connected to the shore by causeways.
		They were forced to occupy a swampy area on the western side of Lake Texcoco, where their only piece of dry land was a tiny island surrounded by marshes.
	www.megaessays.com /essay_search/Lake_Texcoco.html (602 words)

	Aztecs.html (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The city itself was built in the middle of a shallow lake called Texcoco.
		The chinampas were made by piling rich earth from the bottom of Lake Texcoco onto rafts made of weeds.
		These island gardens covered most of the southern part of the lake and were planted with crops that produced large amounts of food.
	lsa.colorado.edu /~lsa/texts/Aztecs.html (1206 words)

	México 2006 : 4th World Water Forum (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This project is being developed in the Federal Zone of the ex- Lake Texcoco, within an area of approximately 10 thousand hectares.
		The zone is considered the last defense and ecological barrier for the east portion of the Mexican Valley and a zone in which an ecological deterioration caused by a drought in the basin of the Texcoco Lake, provoked environmental repercussions with harmful effects for the whole of the Mexican valley area.
		In 1971 the Federal Government created the Project Texcoco Lake in order to solve the problem faced by the area, in which a list of programs, actions, projects and rescue missions of hydro-ecological works were established in the region.
	www.worldwaterforum.org /home/visitas2.asp (1304 words)

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		Because of their origins lakes tend to be aggregated into districts in temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere Most lakes are small, are of glacial origin, and date from the Pleistocene epoch of the Quaternary Period.
		Sediment Traps lakes are born to die lakes are sediment traps that fill relatively rapidly immediately upon their formation they begin to fill undergo a successional process culminating in dry land A. Necessity of positive water balance Precipitation + Inflow > Evaporation + Outflow B. Processes in lake formation 1.
		LAKES ASSOCIATED WITH SHORELINES A. deltaic lakes — sedimentation as river currents slow when they enter a large lake or the ocean — may isolate lakes on deltas B. coastal lake -- movement of sand in spits and bars may enclose basins on shores of ocean and large lakes 9.
	www.mines.edu /Academic/envsci/courses/esgn513/OriginLakesnotes.doc (975 words)

	texc
		Lake Texcoco is a perfect example of this format.
		The Aztec Lago de Texcoco was breathtaking before the Conquest but it was very shortly thereafter that the Lake was drained by the German engineer, Heinrich Martin, in the 1607-8 AD.
		These two maps have been used as "gospel" to show us what the lake looked like before it was destroyed by the German engineer, but in spite of the full 1523 version of the map form, they are always shown in an upside-down position.
	www.mayalords.org /aztecfldr/texc.html (789 words)

	Detail Page
		, the ruler of Texcoco, a man called Ixtlilxochitl, the son of Quinatzin, declared himself the Acholhua emperor, on a political level with King Tezozomoc of the Tepanec in Azcapotzalco.
		He is credited with the Golden Age of Texcoco, demonstrating a knowledge of law and the arts that influenced his neighbors and set high standards for workmanship and creativity.
		The king of Texcoco, however, spent his declining years filled with dread, predicting the collapse of the great civilizations of the Valley of Mexico.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=MES1173 (894 words)

	megaCities:English:Mexico City:History
		Aztec records set the founding date of their city at 1325, when a band of nomads from the north settled on an island in Lake Texcoco.
		The city, called Tenochtitlán, eventually expanded to a population of more than 250,000, and by the 16th century it had become the seat of the Aztec Empire.
		Lake Texcoco was filled in as the city expanded and was rebuilt in the Spanish architectural mode.
	library.thinkquest.org /20377/english/mxcity/history_enghtml.htm (273 words)

	Aztec at AllExperts
		The capital of the Aztec empire was Tenochtitlan, built on raised islets in Lake Texcoco.
		According to their own history, when the Mexicas arrived in the Anahuac valley (Valley of Mexico) around Lake Texcoco, they were considered by the groups living there as uncivilized.
		They harvested acocils, a small and abundant shrimp of Lake Texcoco, as well as spirulina algae, which was made into a sort of cake rich in flavonoids.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/az/aztec.htm (5696 words)

	FAMSI - John Pohl's Mesoamerica - The Aztecs pg. 1
		Impoverished and without allies, the Méxica were soon subjected to attacks by local Toltec warlords who forced them to retreat to an island off Lake Texcoco’s western shore where they witnessed a miraculous vision of prophecy; an eagle standing on a cactus growing from solid rock.
		Their spiritual connection to gods, heroes, and ancestors is comparable to the claims of nationality and language that contemporary societies use to define a state.
		Although legends are difficult to prove, archaeologists have documented the fact that with Tula’s ultimate abandonment by the 13th century, populations began to move south to resettle into independent city states surrounding Lake Texcoco.
	www.famsi.org /research/pohl/pohl_aztec1.html (765 words)

	dres1
		Hunahpu is spotted; as in disease; yoked, as in capital punishment by drowning; headless, as in decapitation, and roped, as a prisoner of the Death God.
		By the same token, in Geology, a similar decapitation came about when the Lake Texcoco (with its disease-infested marshes lands) was separated from the body of the land (Balsas Valley).
		One can assume that a young moon goddess was vain and feminine enough to "use a mirror" which was the now beautiful cultivated Lake Texcoco, as a stand-up 3-D "map" in her hand.
	www.mayalords.org /mayafldr/dres1.html (1602 words)

	Floating Gardens of Mexico
		Almost all of Lake Xochimilco was converted to chinampas by the early part of the 16th century.
		The Aztec even converted a large bay of saline Lake Texcoco into a freshwater lake by a system of sluiced dikes and spring-fed aqueducts, and covered it with chinampas.
		The outlines of former beds may be seen for a considerable distance, since the modern draining of Lake Texcoco has dried up much of the lake area of the Valley of Mexico.
	www.agnr.umd.edu /extension/local/Howard/files/mg/schfloa.htm (836 words)

	Lake
		A Beautiful scene of a tree in the sunset by the lake.
		A beautiful quite scene of mountains by the lake.
		The lake is dangerous, but our little fellow loves fruits and diamonds.
	www.downloadjunction.com /product/software/2168 (426 words)

	Aztecs: Lake Texcoco
		The Aztecs were formed after the Toltec civilization occurred when hundreds of civilians came towards Lake texcoco.
		As the the legend went it said that Aztec people would create a empire on in a swampy place where they would see an eagle eating a snake while perched on a cactus which is growing out of a rock in the swamplands.
		Gold ornaments, brightly colored woven cloth and salt harvested from the lake bed were luxury items that were traded with distant peoples to the south.
	www.lycos.com /info/aztecs--lake-texcoco.html (0 words)

	Aztec Indian Tribe
		According to legend, the various groups who were to become the Aztecs arrived from the north into the Anahuac valley around Lake Texcoco.
		The location of this valley and lake of destination is clear — it is the heart of modern Mexico City — but little can be known with certainty about the origin of the Aztecs.
		When they arrived at an island in the lake, they saw an eagle eating a snake while perched on a nopal cactus, a vision that fulfilled a prophecy telling them that they should found their new home on that spot.
	www.comanchelodge.com /nations/aztec-tribe.html (0 words)

	ipedia.com: Aztec Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Their legends have the people who were to become the Aztecs arriving from the north into the Anahuac valley around Lake Texcoco.
		The location of this valley and lake is clear -- it is the heart of modern Mexico City -- but little else can be known with certainty about their origin.
		According to legend, the ancestors of the Aztecs traveled to Lake Texcoco in Central Mexico from a place to the north called Aztlán, the last of seven nahuatlacas (Nahuatl-speaking tribes) to do so.
	www.ipedia.com /aztec.html (5085 words)

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