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Lake Chalco
Lake Chalco was a freshwater lake in the south-east of the Valley of Mexico, joined to Lake Xochimilco and part of the lake system that included Lake Texcoco. Its shores were home to the Chalca city-states, and chinampa fields in its shallows helped feed Tenochtitlan. It was drained in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and much of its former bed is now built over.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Lake Chalco. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/lake-chalco
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