Alameda park
 Location: Center of the District, within a triangle included by the avenue
Gran Colombia and the streets Sodiro and Guayaquil.
The Alameda is the oldest park of Quito, known
before by the Indians like "chuquihuada" (in quichua, point of the
spear); it is located in the parish San Blas, in downtown, occupies a
surface of six hectares closed by avenues 10 de Agosto, Gran Colombia
and Luis Felipe Borja street.
The Alameda is a site that keeps many memories.
There it worked, until beginnings of the century
last, the School of Beautiful Arts of Quito, in the middle of an almost
mystical atmosphere that marked the art of the time and is the
Astronomical observatory, constructed in the 1 864 during the
presidency of Gabriel Garcia Moreno. It was the best equipped of South
America, and still uses the observation instruments of that then.
Now, when in its environs the city is based, the
visitors go to the park to rest in the place, or use small boats to
sail in the small lake. In the park, still, photographers can be found
who portray the visitors, using cameras of old technology.
Historical facts that they happened in the Alameda
park:
In the environs of the park, in 1 546, the troops
of the conquering insurrectionist faced Spanish Gonzalo Pizarro those
of the virrey of Peru, Blasco Núñez de Vela during the "Battle of
Iñaquito". In this site they rested, the 25 of May of 1 822, the
patriotic troops of cavalry who fought in Battle of the Pichincha,
struggle that sealed to the freedom of Quito and its environs.
At night of the 27 of March of 1 906, president
Eloy Alfaro attended, in the Alameda, to a political act organized by
the group of liberal known like the Fonda, to endorse the respect to
the natives of the forest and to support the restoration of science.
In the south access of the park he was inaugurated, the 24 of 1935
July, the monument to the Liberator of America, Simón Bolivar; act
that constituted a true political event, social and cultural of the
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Environmental resources
Here it can find trees of important dimensions,
that they have resisted to the time and the invasion of the cement.
Botanical investigators registered an important variety of native and
foreign species like the acacia, palmera, cedro, fresno, pumamaqui,
yaloman, arrayan, eucalipto and magnolia.
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