Where before it was a treeless parking lot in the second section of the Chapultepec Forest in Mexico City, the Chapultepec Environmental Culture Center was inaugurated on January 19, 2023, defined as a cultural, landscape and environmental node.
Likewise, the project is part of the initiatives of the Master Plan Chapultepec Nature and Culture, coordinated by the artist Gabriel Orozco, which is expected to end in 2024.
What is the objective of the Chapultepec Environmental Culture Center?
First of all, the space is one of the three centers of environmental culture that exist in Mexico City, operated by the Ministry of the Environment of the Federal District (SEDEMA). The other two are the Yautlica Park, in Iztapalapa, and the Acuexcomatl Center, in Xochimilco.
Together, these centers seek to protect the natural environment of Mexico City and particularly, that of Chapultepec, has the objective of preserving the enormous biological diversity of the urban park as well as doing outreach work on the importance of this task.
Science and nature in one place
Therefore, For this project, more than a thousand trees were planted, wetlands were created, and more than one hundred thousand square meters of themed gardens were developed. that represent some of the ecosystems and natural landscapes of the Valley of Mexico Basin such as temperate forests, grasslands and scree vegetation.
Finally, the center functions as a museum and educational center with a forum, a semi-conical shaped exhibition pavilion with a stone roof of almost two thousand square meters in length; an agroecological zone with various plots of crops and finally, pedestrian walkways that promise an immersion experience in nature.
Get to know this new cultural and landscape space offered by the Chapultepec Forest, the best urban park in the world!
Chapultepec Environmental Culture Center
Where: Second Section of the Chapultepec Forest, between Avenida de los Compositores, Adolfo López Mateos, Constituyentes and Loma.
When: every day from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Cost: free admission.