Hydrography of the city formerly a good
part of the territory of the Federal
District was occupied by the system of
lakes in the basin of Mexico.
This was
made more than one million years with
the emergence of the sierra de
Chichinauhtzin, which represó to...
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Hydrography of the city formerly a good
part of the territory of the Federal
District was occupied by the system of
lakes in the basin of Mexico.
This was
made more than one million years with
the emergence of the sierra de
Chichinauhtzin, which represó to the
rivers that ran southward and produced
water is accumulated forming a large
lake; then basin was opened through
the work of the human being through
the construction of the clefts of
Huehuetoca and Nochistongo, in the
State of Mexico, to divert the Cuautitlán
River which was which caused the
floods at that time.
The decision of
dewatering the Lake system was made
during the colonial era.
Although these
works were made as a result of the
flood of 1629, they were unable to
prevent the city of Mexico is anegara
on several occasions between the
17TH and 18th centuries.
The last
remnants of bodies of water are the
systems of canals that irrigate the
Chinampa of Xochimilco and Tláhuac,
as well as.
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Durante el siglo XIX,
desapareci
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