Chinampa

[chi-nam-puh] /tʃɪˈnæm pə/

noun
1.
(in Mesoamerica) a long and narrow floating field on a shallow lake bed, artificially built up by layering soil, sediment, and decaying vegetation and used, especially by the Aztecs, to grow crops.

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