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    Lake Chalco was an endorheic lake formerly located in the Valley of Mexico, and was important for Mesoamerican cultural development in central Mexico...
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    included: Lake Texcoco — brackish Lake Zumpango Lake Xaltocan Lake Chalco — fresh water Lake Xochimilco was originally a part of an even larger lake, Lake Texcoco...
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    area. Chalco name is Nahuatl, and comes from Challi: "lake edge", and Co: "place" therefore both words together mean "on the edge of the lake". The municipal...
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    major and several smaller lakes (the other main lakes being Lakes Xaltocan, Zumpango, Chalco, and Xochimilco). Much of the lake was fed from groundwater...
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    Valle de Chalco, officially named Valle de Chalco Solidaridad, is a municipality located in the State of Mexico, Mexico, on the eastern outskirts of the...
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  • metropolitan area. The city and municipality lie on the old lakebed of Lake Chalco, which was drained like much of the Basin of Mexico. The city name comes...
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    interconnected lakes called Lake Zumpango, Lake Xaltocan (Nahuatl languages: Xāltocān), Lake Xochimilco, Lake Chalco and the largest, Lake Texcoco, covering...
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  • Chalco may refer to: Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias, or simply Chalco, seat of the municipality of Chalco, State of México Chalco (altépetl), an altépetl...
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    originally found in several lakes underlying what is now Mexico City, such as Lake Xochimilco and Lake Chalco. These lakes were drained by Spanish settlers...
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    interconnected lakes, covering about 1,500 square kilometers (580 sq mi) (the other lakes being Lake Xaltocan, Lake Xochimilco, Lake Chalco and Lake Texcoco)...
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    Valley was substantially covered with five lakes, including Lake Texcoco, Lake Xochimilco, and Lake Chalco. Guzmán Basin, in northern Mexico and the southwestern...
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    lakebed where Lake Chalco and Lake Xochimilco met, with the town of San Pedro Tláhuac originally on an island. There are still some lake areas along with...
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  • critically endangered neotenic salamander that is native to Lake Xochimilco and Lake Chalco in central Mexico. Axolotl may also refer to: Axolotl Press...
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    heavily defended at El Peñon. Instead, he cut a road looping south of Lake Chalco and Lake Xochimilco to the town of San Agustín. The Mexican defenders blocked...
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    Lake Chalco. “Míxquic” means “in mesquite” but the community's culture for most of its history was based on chinampas, gardens floating on the lake's...
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    Tlapacoya volcano, southeast of Mexico City, on the former shore of Lake Chalco. Tlapacoya was a major site for the Tlatilco culture. Tlapacoya is known...
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    emperors would pass by here on royal barges on their way to Chalco/Xico, then an island in Lake Chalco. For centuries Xochimilco remained relatively separate...
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    greater frequency dating to 3000 BCE and later. The site of Zohapilco on Lake Chalco in the Basin of Mexico has evidence of year-round settlement before a...
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    Quitman, and Gideon Johnson Pillow.: 274  Scott moved on the south side of Lake Chalco on 15 August, advancing to San Agustín.: 290  Rather than moving northward...
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  • is on the base of a remnant volcanic hill on the shore of the former Lake Chalco. Seventeen excavations along the base of Tlapacoya Hill between 1956...
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    blade found in the Tlapacoya area, which was an island in the former Lake Chalco. They are dated to the Pleistocene era which dates human habitation back...
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    emperors would pass by here on royal barges on their way to Chalco/Xico, then an island in Lake Chalco. Aztec emperor Moctezuma Xocoyotzin imposed a new governor...
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    through pollution and water extraction. Endorheic chub Evarra tlahuacensis Lake Chalco in the Valley of Mexico Last collected in 1970. Extinct due to habitat...
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  • Chalco Hills Recreation Area is located in northwestern Sarpy County, Nebraska, and approximately 12 miles (19 km) west of downtown Omaha. Chalco Hills...
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  • General Winfield Scott begin to advance along the aqueduct around Lake Chalco and Lake Xochimilco in Mexico August 20 – U.S. troops defeat Mexican troops...
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    which also included the town of Tlapacoya, on the eastern shore of Lake Chalco. Tlatilco is noted in particular for its high quality pottery pieces...
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  • von Siebold (1823-1829). Syr Darya sturgeon by K.T. Kessler (1874). Yunnan lake newts by George Albert Boulenger (1905). Ivory-billed woodpecker pair photographed...
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  • moved to Mexico to organize peasants. When a land speculator drained Lake Chalco, López Chávez led up to 1,500 affected tenant farmers (campesinos) in...
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    three hundred years. Culhuacán was located on the north coast of the Lake Chalco/Lake Xochimilco, which has since dried up. According to archeological studies...
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    used as water supply as it drew from the same springs in the Lake Xochimilco and Lake Chalco areas. Since the 1950s, many rivers and canals in the city...
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