Chalupa (boat)

A chalupa (Spanish word coming from the Basque Txalupa) is a small boat that functions as a shallop, water taxi or gondola, such as those seen at the "floating gardens" of Xochimilco south of Mexico City, Mexico. Txalupa is originally the name of the type of whaling boat used by the Basques in the mid-16th century in what is now Newfoundland and Labrador.

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