Word Origin & History. environment c.1600, state of being environed (see environs); sense of nature, conditions in which a person or thing lives first recorded 1827 (used by Carlyle to render Ger. Umgebung); specialized ecology sense first recorded 1956.
Chinampa (Nahuatl: chinÄmitl [tÊiËnaËmitÉ¬]) is a method of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico.urther reading [edit]. 1  Blanton, Richard. 2  Calnek, Edward E., Settlement Pattern and Chinampa Agriculture, American Antiquity 1972, 37(104-15). 3  Chapin, Mac. 4  Cline, S.L., Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town. 5  Parsons, Jeffrey R. The Role of Chinampa Agriculture in the Food Supply of Aztec Tenochtitlan, in Cultural ...
Written By: Chinampa, also called floating garden, small, stationary, artificial island built on a freshwater lake for agricultural purposes. Chinampan was the ancient name for the southwestern region of the Valley of Mexico, the region of Xochimilco, and it was there that the technique wasâand is stillâmost widely used.