Teotituacán
was certainly larger, and probably cleaner, than many European cities
of the time. Large residential areas surrounded the central precincts,
and houses with chinampa gardens lay on the outskirts of the city.
Six major canals ran through Teotituacán, and three causeways
connected the city with the shore. At least 200,000 canoes provided
convenient transport for the people of the city, which was divided
into sixty or seventy well-organized wards. Teotituacán was
a magnificent city set in a green swath of country in the middle
of a clear lake, with a superb backdrop of snow-capped volcanoes. from People of the Earth, 10th Edition byBrian M. Fagan
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