a long narrow extension of farm land built by human hands and stretching into the freshwater lakes around Mexico City (see also chinamitl); entered Spanish as chinampa
chinampa = raised lakebed gardens
chinampa = from the Nahuatl word chinamitl; refers to raised garden plots built into canals and the lake system surrounding Mexico City
1609 años. yquac peuh yn ipan izqui acallotli nican mexico. yn omoyecti o nohuian moҫoquiquixti. ytencopatzinco. yn tlahtohuani visurrey Don luis de velasco. auh yehuantin. oquichihuaco. yn tequitl. ynic nohuian cenchinampanecatl = the year 1609 was when cleaning out all the canals here in Mexico and removing the mud everywhere began at the order of the lord viceroy don Luis de Velasco. The different people from all over the chinampa region came to perform the tribute work (central Mexico, 1609)
auh ynic cenchinampa yn culhuacan yn cuitlahuac. oc cenca vmpa yn ciudad xochimilco yn tlatlacauh = And in the whole chinampa district, in Colhuacan and Cuitlahuac and especially in the city of Xochimilco, there was damage (central Mexico, 1611)
mani chinanpa nauhtetemi Anacazco = son cuatro chinampas que están situadas en Anacazco (Cuernavaca, 1597)
yn milli mani chinanpan no ticoncahuia yn noteachcauh[tzin] = en las chinampas tenemos mi hermano y yo una suerte de tierra (Coyoacan, 1587)
niz cate ytech pohui pablo de sanctoual yacapitlan chināpan; pablo de sanctoval (sixteenth-century Yecapixtla, Morelos)