Xochimilco was the most important city of the Xochimilca people, one of the Nahua tribes that migrated to the Mesoamerica region. At the same time it was...

Xochimilco contains what remains of the geography (water, boats, floating gardens) of the Mexica capital. Tenochtitlan was one of two Mexica āltepētl...

14th to the 16th centuries. Aztec culture was organized into city-states (altepetl), some of which joined to form alliances, political confederations, or...

designation altepetl for their settlement. Culhuacan was perhaps the first of the chinampa towns founded on the shores of Lake Xochimilco, with chinampas...

Politically, the society was organized into independent city-states, called altepetls, composed of smaller divisions (calpulli), which were again usually composed...

predecessor, his nephew Chimalpopoca, was killed by Maxtla of the nearby Tepanec āltepētl (city-state) of Azcapotzalco. Allying with Nezahualcoyotl of Texcoco, Itzcoatl...

called Lake Zumpango, Lake Xaltocan (Nahuatl languages: Xāltocān), Lake Xochimilco, Lake Chalco and the largest, Lake Texcoco, covering about 1,500 square...

a series of independent city-states. These early Nahua city-states or altepetl were ruled by dynastic heads called tlahtohqueh (singularly tlatoāni)....

groups based in their different "Altepetl" city-states fought for political dominance. The Xochimilca, based in Xochimilco ruled an area south of Lake Texcoco;...

own. Expeditions were sent against Cuauhnahuac (modern Cuernavaca) and Xochimilco. Tribute was due to the Tecpanec rulers every full moon, a tribute said...