More than 10.5 billion pesos have been invested in the rehabilitation of Chapultepec Park and the project is expected to be inaugurated by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. According to federal government estimates, the work will be completed by the end of this administration.
The above was announced yesterday morning, where a report was presented on the work and progress of the Chapultepec, Nature and Culture project, which has been priority
for the federal president.
The restoration of the forest includes the opening of a fourth section, which is expected to increase the annual number of visitors from the current 20 million to 30 million people.
It was reported that with this new section, 180 hectares were added to Chapultepec Forest, thus becoming the largest environmental and cultural space in the world, with 866 hectares, an area three times larger than that of Central Park in New York.
The head of the Executive defined this space as The most important park in the world, for all that it means in the cultural and historical sense.
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The project was led by artist Gabriel Orozco Félix, who stated that a Chapultepec will be delivered safe and sound
which will be more of a cultural center than a park.
More jobs and green areas
Mexico City Mayor Martí Batres said that the renovation of this historic space has generated more than 75,000 direct and indirect jobs.
He added that 60 percent of the total 866 hectares of forest have been intervened; of that surface, 449 of green areas were rehabilitated and 60 more were gained as public space.
According to Batres Guadarrama, the restoration of Chapultepec was based on two axes: the environmental and the cultural.
The first is 99 percent complete, and 14 of the 15 actions have been completed, such as the restoration of the Cri-Cri, Rosario Castellanos, Tamayo, Gandhi and Amistad parks, the Vasco de Quiroga springs, the Paso del Conejo, remodeling of the zoo and the Memorial Walk of the Dolores Civil Pantheon – the oldest in the city – to name a few.
In the cultural field, the Los Pinos Cultural Complex was opened, as well as the Environmental Culture Center and the Scenic Pavilion; in addition, the new headquarters of the National Film Library is being built, which will have eight rooms and an open-air cinema.
In the information presented to President López Obrador, it was noted that the restoration and sanitation of the Tacubaya River is already 98 percent complete.
The head of the Ministry of Culture, Alejandra Frausto, said that before the end of the six-year term, the fourth section of the forest, which was the former assembly plant for the military industry, will be opened to the public. The land was donated by the Ministry of National Defense.
We are 92 percent complete; by the end of September it will be ready for the four sections to meet.
he emphasized.
He stressed that since the federal president made the decision to open Los Pinos to the public, this space has received 14 million visitors, making it the most visited cultural center in the country.
The official said that the large park will be connected by the third line of the Cablebús, through six stations and will cover 5.5 kilometers.
This system has an investment of 2,405 million pesos, and will connect with the El Insurgente train, which runs from Mexico City to Toluca.
In addition, the forest can be explored via a network of paths, trails, and bridges.
The project is one of the most ambitious that has existed in culture in recent times, not only in the country, but in the world. A project of urban, cultural and environmental justice.
Frausto Guerrero highlighted.
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