{"id":1946,"date":"2010-02-25T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2010-02-24T23:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T04:46:43","slug":"chinampas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/02\/chinampas\/","title":{"rendered":"chinampas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1947\" title=\"chinampas\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/chinampas.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/chinampas.jpg 525w, https:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/chinampas-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>[Chinampas, artificial agricultural islands in <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Xochimilco,+Mexico&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=48.956293,79.013672&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Xochimilco,+Distrito+Federal,+Mexico&amp;ll=19.265533,-99.097967&amp;spn=0.057446,0.077162&amp;t=h&amp;z=14\">Xochimilco, Mexico<\/a>, photographed by flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/colibri\/16020807\/in\/set-385119\">Colibri<\/a>.\u00a0 The chinampas have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plu.edu\/~mayac\/building-chinampa\/home.html\">constructed<\/a> in the lakes around Mexico City since pre-Columbian times; posts are driven into the lake bottom in shallows, connected into walls by weaving branches horizontally between the posts, and the resultant enclosures are filled with fertile soil from dredged by hand from the lake.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/colibri\/16024661\/in\/set-385119\/\"> Rows of Ahuehuete<\/a>, a willow, are planted along the edges, so that their growing root systems bind and reinforce the edges of the chinampas.\u00a0 More recently, the chinampas have served as inspiration and model for the use of constructed wetlands to treat wastewater in Xochimilco (<a href=\"http:\/\/redalyc.uaemex.mx\/redalyc\/pdf\/578\/57816301.pdf\">pdf<\/a>).]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Chinampas, artificial agricultural islands in Xochimilco, Mexico, photographed by flickr user Colibri.\u00a0 The chinampas have been constructed in the lakes around Mexico City since pre-Columbian times; posts are driven into the lake bottom in shallows, connected into walls by weaving branches horizontally between the posts, and the resultant enclosures are filled with fertile soil from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,43],"tags":[313,133,341],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-landscape-architecture","tag-glacier-island-storm","tag-hydrology","tag-wetlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}