La Carolina park
 Location:
The park is delimited by the avenues Shyris, Eloy Alfaro, Amazonas and
Naciones Unidas.
With 67 hectares of land, this one is one of the
greater urban parks of the District, of the country and of America of
the South. During the week, it welcomes in habitual sportsmen who
enjoy the calm atmosphere that offers by the mornings the place.
Whereas the week ends, receive approximately, to 50 000 people.
Here, you can retozar in the gardens or play soccer, practice
basketball, slide, exercise your body making aerobics, mount to horse
or simply to walk next to your family or friends.
This is a small example of all the infrastructure
that has the field:
Fields of soccer, basketball, volley ball and
tennis, athletic passage, circuit of bici cross, track for skating
and acrobatics in bicycle, perimeter of infantile games, center of
exhibitions, five lots to park vehicles, dining rooms and centers
of socialization.
History: Located in the sector of Iñaquito, the park was born like
product of the municipal expropriation from 1 939 to the property
"the Carolina" that belonged to Mrs. Maria Augusta Barba de
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The modern design was made by the Direction
of Planning of the Municipality in 1 976 and is being remodelled again
at the present time.
The Pope Juan Pablo II carried out in this park a multitudinal mass
during its visit to Ecuador in 1985. In order to commemorate this
event, a giant cross in the site was constructed where the ceremony
took place.
Other Sites of Attraction in the Carolina park
Park Nautical
The lagoon nailed in the Southeastern sector of the
land is one of the main attractions that the Carolina has. You can
enjoy giving a stroll in boat pedal or a water bicycle.
The Botanical Garden of Quito
In this oasis, you will be able to appreciate and
to know the amplest variety orquídeas and other species of flora that
live in spurs of ecuadorian Andes In the green areas that they
surround to the Orquideario, a representation is had the different
Andean environmental scenes.
Airplane of the Fantasy
If you want to enjoy his children of the infantile
theater and the puppets, visit this airplane. To the interior of an
old apparatus it will find new proposals for the diversion of the
children.
Ecuadorian museum of Natural Sciences
This area was created to give to know and to
include the natural wealth that is distributed in all Ecuador. It has
several botanical, paleontological samples and mineral
of the country. |
