The Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning is working on the pre-feasibility of the “Cuenca El Culebrón Paleontological Park” and will invest more than $200 million in the design of a mitigation area in the wetland. For its part, the municipality is already taking protective measures to give value to this green lung of Coquimbo.

Working on the pre-feasibility of the project to develop a design that seeks to recover the El Culebrón Park in Coquimbo is the Housing and Urban Planning Department. The objective is to rescue this green lung that, every day, is threatened by the presence of people who are going to eliminate garbage, burn grasslands, increased crime, illegal settlements, bird hunting and the entry of private cistern trucks that are going to extract water. to the Wetland.

Project features

The objective of Minvu, which works together with the Coquimba municipality and citizen groups such as “Defensores del Parque”, is to build a public space that allows recreation and also enhances and preserves the paleontological legacy of the sector. All this in the area that borders Avenida Portugal in the town of San Juan de Coquimbo. There are more than 56 hectares, in which there are already soccer fields, a sports club, the San Juan electrical substation, the municipal kennel run by CEAPA, private land, clean points and in addition, the Cuenca El park itself is already located. Soap opera in a state of almost abandonment.

As there are no reports regarding the paleontological richness of this place, it was decided to begin this process using as a basis two studies started a couple of years ago. The first of them is the “Coquimbo Culebrón Wetland and Park Baseline Study” carried out by MANKUK Consulting & Services S.A. The second is the Preliminary Project called “El Culebrón Paleo-Ecological Park” carried out by SUBDERE and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), within the framework of Emerging Cities.

Among the main works considered by this project are infrastructure works such as a building for the Site Museum, 4 Access pavilions, a BMX and Mountain Bike Circuit, implementation of cycle paths, parking lots, pedestrian paths and construction of a vehicular service road. The park will also have a perimeter closure, implementation of railings, seats, benches, children's games, exercise machines, shades, picnic area, public lighting, grass, planting of native tree species and the implementation of an irrigation system.

Thus, in January 2018, the design formulation for this park was entered into the Investment System, which was technically objected by the Ministry of Social Development and work is already underway on its reformulation.

Source: Diario el Día