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Xochimilco area, location of the former city of Xochimilco located on the southern shore of lake Xochimilco, in the middle of which Tenochtitlan (now downtown Mexico City) was built.
The current Xochimilco area is 125 sq. km, and is home to 170km of canals separating artificial islands created when the lake was drained during the early colonial era. Today, the lakes that used to encircle Mexico City have completely disappeared and the Xochimilco canals are the only witnesses of their existence.