This canal and chinampa system, as a vestige of the area ’ s pre-Hispanic past, has made Xochimilco a World Heritage Site ; however, environmental degradation of both the canals and the chinampas is severe and ongoing, putting that status in question for the future.

Xochimilco has only one policeman for each 550 residents on average, and there have been complaints that police have taken over 30 minutes to respond to calls.

Since then reclaimed wastewater has been recycled to flow into the Xochimilco canals to supplement water from natural sources.

The deterioration is happening so fast, that UNESCO has threatened to pull Xochimilco World Heritage Site status.

As a result, these lakes, including Lake Xochimilco, has suffered one of the most radical transformations in the history of urbanization.

One of these more localized festivals is on May 3, Day of the Holy Cross, which has been celebrated in communities such as Santa Cruz Xochitepec ( or Magdalena Xochitepec ), Santa Cruz Acalpixcan and the center of Xochimilco for over 400 years.

The image is over 435 years old and has a following of about 25, 000 in the Xochimilco area.

Today, Xochimilco has nine parishes and five rectories.

Since the pre-Hispanic period, Xochimilco ’ s economy has traditionally been based on agriculture, mostly by supplying to the needs of Mexico City.

Xochimilco has four major markets dedicated to the sale of plants and flowers: Cuemanco, Palacio de la Flor, Mercado de Madre Selva and the historic market at San Luis Tlaxialtemalco.

Xochimilco still has 3, 562 units of agricultural production, accounting for 17. 7 % of the total of the Federal District.

However, relative to the rest of the city, Xochimilco has a negligible amount of hotel infrastructure.

Currently, the institution has three campuses in the Federal District, in Azcapotzalco, Iztapalapa and Xochimilco and it is composed of several academic divisions.

Service was reinstated on 13 December 1991, as STE began to place new cars into service on the Xochimilco line, but ceased again on 6 October 1992 and has never resumed.

The south of the Valley, including Tlalpan, is also affected by the underground movement of magma, especially when such contacts the waterlogged regions of the former Lake Xochimilco.

There are also Chinelo dancers in the southern boroughs of Milpa Alta and Xochimilco in nearby Mexico City.

* Xochimilco, Mexico City ( see also Chalupa )

The tracks between Huipulco and Xochimilco were also in a separate right-of-way.

Plagues and poor planning have gravely affected the conservation area in Xochimilco, to the extent that many fruit trees traditionally grown here have disappeared, including capulins and peaches.

In the pre-Hispanic period, this area was a small island, which was called Teopanzolco, at the juncture of Lake Texcoco and Lake Xochimilco.

It lies at the far south of the Federal District bordering the boroughs of Coyoacán, Xochimilco and Milpa Alta with the state of Morelos to the south and the State of Mexico to the southwest.

Stand selling ice cream in many flavors at Xochimilco

In the 1970s, the school divided into an undergraduate and graduate division and in 1979, the undergraduate division moved to a new campus in Xochimilco, leaving the graduate studies at the traditional site in the historic center.

UAM Rectoría is the main office, and it is located in the south of the city, near Xochimilco, at the street Canal de Miramontes.

Until 1995, the outer terminus was located just beyond Calle Francisco Goitia, at what is now named Francisco Goitia station ; it was named " Xochimilco " station originally.

Xochimilco light rail is shown in dark blue at the bottom center.

Entrance to the Xochimilco Light Rail | Tren Ligero at Tasqueña, 2008

Important landmarks of Greater Mexico City include the Historic Center of Mexico City, the floating gardens of Xochimilco, the Pre-Hispanic city ruins Teotihuacan, located at the municipality of the same name, all three declared World Heritage sites by UNESCO in 1987.

This line is an extension of the Mexico City metro system which begins at Metro Tasqueña station and ends in the Xochimilco Light Rail Station.

The borough is centered on the formerly independent city of Xochimilco, which was established on what was the southern shore of Lake Xochimilco in the pre-Hispanic period.

Xochimilco is best known for its canals, which are left from what was an extensive lake and canal system that connected most of the settlements of the Valley of Mexico.

The Xochimilco borough was centered on what was the city of Xochimilco, which had been an independent settlement from the pre-Hispanic period to the 20th century.

The borough is divided into eighteen “ barrios ,” which make up the old city of Xochimilco and fourteen communities outside the traditional city called “ pueblos .” The barrios are El Rosario, Santa Crucita, Caltongo, San Lorenzo, San Diego, La Asunción, San Juan, San Antonio, Belem, San Cristóbal, San Esteban, La Santísima, La Guadalupita, La Concepción Tlacoapa, San Marcos and Xaltocan, The fourteen pueblos are San María Tepepan, Santiago Tepalcatlalpan, San Mateo Xalpa, San Lorenzo Atemoaya, Santa Cruz Xochitepec, San Lucas Xochimanca, San Francisco Tlalnepantla, Santa María Nativitas, San Gregorio Atlapulco, Santiago Tulyehualco, San Luis Tlaxialtemalco, San Andrés Ahuayucan, Santa Cecilia Tepetlapa and San Cruz Acalpixca.

Xochimilco is characterized by the existence of a system of canals, which measure about a total of 170km2.

The Grupo de Investigación del Ajolote en Xochimilco ( GIA-X ) is a nonprofit research group dedicated to the preservation of the axolotl, which is in danger of extinction.

Xochimilco had one woman ruler, which did not happen anywhere else in Mesoamerica in the pre-Hispanic period.

Another similar performance is called “ Retorno al Mictlan “ or Return to Mictlan, the Aztec land of the Dead, which is performed in the historic center of Xochimilco.

Other events include the Carnival of Xochimilco, which was begun in 2004, to rescue the carnival tradition in the area.

Francisco Goitia station, which was the Xochimilco terminus from 1988 until 1995

Tasqueña connects Line 2 with the Xochimilco Light Rail line, which runs from this station to the borough of Xochimilco.

Lake Xochimilco is an ancient endorheic lake located in the Valley of Mexico, part of a series of lakes, which included the brackish Lake Texcoco, Lake Zumpango, and Lake Xaltocan and the fresh water Lake Chalco.