Lake Chalco

Lake Chalco was an endorheic lake in the past situated in the Valley of Mexico, and was significant for Mesoamerican social advancement in focal Mexico. The lake was named after the antiquated city of Chalco on its previous eastern shore. Lake Chalco and the other Mexican extraordinary lakes the harsh lakes Texcoco, Zumpango and Xaltocan and the freshwater Xochimilco shaped the antiquated Basin of Mexico lake framework.

Beginning amid the Aztec time and proceeding into 20^th century, endeavors were made to deplete Lake Chalco and her sister lakes so as to stay away from occasional flooding and to accommodate development. The main lakes that are still in presence are a lessened Lake Xochimilco and the Lake of Zumpango. Lake Chalco and Lake Xochimilco were the first living space of the axolotl, a land and water proficient which is presently basically jeopardized and possibly terminated in the wild because of urban devastation. A land theorist's depleting of the lake in the late 1860s prompted a sharecropper campesino revolt sorted out by Julio Lopez Chavez that was in the end put somewhere near the government.