Call to protect chinampas, 'Mexico's treasure'
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Yanireth Israde
Mexico City (June 12, 2025) - 1:00 PM
Fernando Chiapa, co-author of the book "Chinampas: Heritage of Mexico City," and historian Ángeles González Gamio during the presentation. Credit: Edgar Medel
Chinamperos struggle to preserve ancestral technologies despite the advance of urbanization that threatens biocultural heritage. Credit: José L. Ramírez / REFORMA Archive
The book "Chinampas: Heritage of Mexico City" should be required reading to protect this unique heritage of Mexico, they suggested at the presentation. Credit: Edgar Medel
The capital's declaration recognizing the agricultural terraces of the hilly areas of Xochimilco, Tláhuac, Milpa Alta, and Iztapalapa as biocultural heritage constitutes a responsibility, not a reward, warned Fernando Chiapa Sánchez, a researcher at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM).
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