This article is about the lake. For the pre-Columbian city-state, see Texcoco (altepetl). For the modern municipality and city, see Texcoco, State of Mexico.
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Lake Texcoco (Spanish: Lago de Texcoco; Nahuatl languages: Tetzco(h)co) was a natural lake within the Anahuac or Valley of Mexico. Lake Texcoco is best known for an island situated on the western side of the lake where the Mexica built the city of Mēxihco Tenōchtitlan, which would later become the capital of the Aztec Empire. After the Spanish conquest, efforts to control flooding led to most of the lake being drained.
The entire lake basin is now almost completely occupied by Mexico City, the capital of the present-day nation of Mexico. Drainage of the lake has led to serious ecological and human consequences: the local climate and water availability have changed considerably, contributing to water scarcity in the area; subsequent groundwater extraction leads to land subsidence under much of the city; and native species endemic to the lake region have become severely endangered or extinct due to ecosystem change, such as the axolotl.[2]
After the cancellation of the Mexico City Texcoco Airport, the government initiated a major restoration project of a significant part of the lake in the form of the Lake Texcoco Ecological Park, 14,000 hectares of public space and ecological restoration.
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LakeTexcoco (Spanish: Lago de Texcoco; Nahuatl languages: Tetzco(h)co) was a natural lake within the Anahuac or Valley of Mexico. LakeTexcoco is best...
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archaeologist Helmut de Terra in February 1947, on the shores of the former LakeTexcoco in central Mexico. The skeleton was found near mammoth remains and thought...
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arrived from the north into the Anahuac valley around LakeTexcoco. The location of this valley and lake of destination is clear – it is the heart of modern...
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army to Texcoco, where he could assemble and launch the sloops in the creeks flowing into LakeTexcoco. With his main headquarters in Texcoco, he could...
Indigenous people. The city was originally built on a group of islands in LakeTexcoco by the Mexica around 1325, under the name Tenochtitlan. It was almost...
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