Metropolitan urban forests
Introduction
The Tlaquepaque Urban Forest is a public urban forest run by the Metropolitan Agency of Urban Forests of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (AMBU), metropolitan OPD of the Government of the State of Jalisco,[1] which is located in the El Álamo area, within the Revolución Fractionation of San Pedro Tlaquepaque, Jalisco in Mexico, right at the southeastern access of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, with An area of more than 10.5 hectares, it is the largest public space in the entire municipality.
The main objective of the Tlaquepaque Urban Forest is to mitigate the environmental impacts of the area, becoming a densely wooded space with the minimum possible infrastructure, contributing to the Climate Action Plan of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area. All the tree species with which it has been forested are native to the region, with the aim of recovering our ecosystems in urban areas, attracting birds, reptiles, insects and mammals so that this can be their refuge, in addition to being a space that can capture and infiltrate rainwater, contributing to the recharge of the aquifers in the area.[2].
The Tlaquepaque Urban Forest was born as a result of a neighborhood movement in the Fraccionamiento Revolución led by the Tlaquepaque Urban Forest Neighborhood Collective at the beginning of 2020, which resumes the bases of neighborhood movements that emerged in the 90s, at the beginning of 2000 and in the 2010s in favor of the construction of the Tlaquepaque Metropolitan Park, which did not have the expected results. moment.
History of the land
The land where the forest is located is a state-owned land, at the intersection of the Calzada Lázaro Cárdenas and the Chapala Highway in Tlaquepaque, which since the 80s was used as a recreational area by the residents of the area, resulting in the construction of a public park in the 90s to provide environmental and recreational services to the inhabitants of the area of El Álamo, El Tapatío and Tlaquepaque Centro, the which would be built by the state government and would have an area of 20 hectares, until the project was abandoned in 1992 because the place served as the final destination for the debris from the 1992 Guadalajara explosions of the Reforma Sector in Guadalajara "Guadalajara (Mexico)").