Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco' has mentioned 'Island' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| The city was originally built on an island of Lake Texcoco by the Aztecs in 1325 as Tenochtitlan, which was almost completely destroyed in the 1521 Siege of Tenochtitlan and subsequently redesigned and rebuilt in accordance with the Spanish urban standards. | WIKI |
| The old Mexica city that is now simply referred to as Tenochtitlan was built on an island in the center of the inland lake system of the Valley of Mexico, which it shared with a smaller city-state called Tlatelolco. | WIKI |
| [35] Cortxc3xa9s and his allies landed their forces in the south of the island and slowly fought their way through the city. | WIKI |
| The Aztecs built what was to become the capital of their empire on a small island in the Lake of Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. | UNESCO |
| Testimonies from the time of the arrival of the Spanish conquerors at Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, account for the existence of the great lake dotted with a multitude of canoes and the island city, full of oratories like towers and fortresses and all gleaming white. | UNESCO |
| The conquering Spaniards destroyed the island city of Tenochtitlan and started to drain the lake that surrounded it. | UNESCO |
| Beyond the historic centre, the urban sprawl of the contemporary Metropolitan Area of Mexico City has now grown far beyond the island the capital once occupied, filling nearly the whole valley and engulfing entirely the remains of the chinampas of Xochimilco. | UNESCO |