Quito - Ecuador
Guangüiltagua Metropolitan Park
It is located north of Quito and is a meeting place for the inhabitants of the city with nature.
Located in northern Quito, the sprawling Metropolitan Park, a vital lung for the city, is a splendid space that creates a vital bridge between citizens and the wealth of nature that surrounds them. Although primarily populated by extensive grasslands and eucalyptus trees, the park's meandering streams still provide a welcoming home to a variety of native flora and fauna, constituting a small but significant habitat in the urban heartland.
En un esfuerzo para realzar y revitalizar estas áreas, ReforestemosEcuador lanzó el proyecto “Planta un árbol en tu Ciudad”. A través de esta valiosa iniciativa, hemos logrado revitalizar vastas áreas previamente degradadas del parque, sembrando más de 15,500 árboles, arbustos y plantas autóctonas.
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Location
- Improves aesthetics and landscape of the urban areas.
- Protection against erosion and better drainage of rain water.
- Noise mitigation urban.
- Improvement of the quality of the air and compensation of the carbon footprint.
- Increased biodiversity, including birds, insects and small mammals.
- Combat against climate change.
Surface: 576ha. It is intervening in the buffer zones of the broken, with large areas pending restoration.
Location and Altitude: 0° 10' 38" S, 78° 28' 04" W, with an altitude of 2,915 meters, in the province of Pichincha.
Flora and fauna
Alder, Bayberry, the Cholán, Walnut, Quishuar, the Pumamaqui, the Pusopato, the Basswood, Cedar, Guabo, the cherry tree, cat's Claw, and the Laurel wax, are just some of the various species of trees that adorn the natural landscape with its presence, each contributing uniquely to the biodiversity and the balance of the ecosystem of the park, and creating a mosaic out of life that is fundamental to the maintenance of the inhabitants smaller and visitors winged park.
In regards to wildlife, the park is a home to 8 species of mammals, 32 of birds and 7 reptiles, providing a critical habitat that, other, is increasingly scarce in the urban environment that surrounds it.
Threats
The introduction of the eucalyptus, an exotic species native to Australia, has generated certain barriers to the full flowering of the native biodiversity of the park. This tree, although it has certain benefits, such as its rapid growth and ability to adapt to diverse climates, it is also known to deplete significantly the nutrients in the soil, which can inhibit the growth of other plants in their immediate environment.
However, with the strategic intervention and the layout through the use of native trees, the situation is beginning to change gradually but stunning.
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