xochimilco canals, floating gardens, with flowers, adorned with trajineras inviting you to visit sites Federal District's most picturesque.

Xochimilco is characterized by the existence of channels that gave a special dye in the Valley of Anahuac. This site, topography and flow from a series of springs at the edge of the mountains has allowed until now to be an attractive place with its canals, floating gardens, with flowers, adorned with trajineras inviting you to visit sites Federal District's most picturesque.

"The settlements of Mexico and Xochimilco, built from islets won to a large lake, enclosed in a valley at 2200 meters, are eloquent evidence of the creative spirit and man's efforts to form a habitat in half unfavorable geographical. " (Declaration and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, UNESCO 1987).
is one of the 16 Federal District of Mexico. Located in the southeast of this state, and has an area of 122 square kilometers [1]. Xochimilco has a population of 404,458 inhabitants, according to the Second Census of Population conducted by the INEGI in 2005.

Xochimilco's origins date back to prehispanic times. Since the Mesoamerican Preclassic period its banks and islands were home to many people of unknown descent. At the beginning of the Postclassic, Xochimilco was an important altepetl which was submitted by the Aztecs in the fifteenth century. During the colonial and early independent life of Mexico, the area of Xochimilco became a food supplier to Mexico City.
Over time, the great lake that covered the Valley of Mexico began to disappear as part of a government measure to prevent flooding and also by a casual relationship with the environment. It was thus that trajineras, rafts and steamers once part of Xochimilco, to actual historical center of the city were being increasingly restricted in their navigation to now become a memory of other times and in a way local communication between the channels and lakes in the area.