First stage to plant 562 trees and 1,500 shrubs, including cedars, ceibas, ramones and jabines, among others…//
RESIDENTS OF “LA PLANCHA” area are just waiting for the second rain of the season to fall so that they can begin to plant 562 trees and 1,500 shrubs, which are part of the process of reforestation of this great lung of the city, informed the citizens’ representative, Felix Rubio Villanueva.
“The rainfall will give us the pattern; if it falls in the second half of June then we will have to plant some of the 562 trees then, because if we plant before the trees will die while you are digging and doing the planting,” he said.
He affirmed that the Federal Government granted a total of 22 million pesos ($1.1 million USD) for the planting and the irrigation and lighting systems of the first part of the project.
“Then, in the second stage, the lunary, the kiosk, the planetarium, the plaza, pre-Hispanic buildings and the little train will be built. It will be an important lung for society, because we expect that in the first instance it will be 8 hectares, but already with the whole project we are speaking of more than 26.9 hectares, of which 80% will be wooded,” he said.
The tree species that will be planted include cedars, ceibas, ramones, jabines, among others that are native to the region, as well as some that have already adapted well to the state such as the golden rain and flamboyanes.
He stressed that the first stage should be completed in the second week of September of this year and will include lighting, tree planting and irrigation, with the promise that the the President of the Republic, Enrique Peña Nieto, will attend the inauguration.
“At the inauguration the President and the head of the Social Development Secretariat will attend, because this work promises that it will be the most important park in the whole country, and we are excited that it can finally be carried out,” he said.
Text and photos: Roberto Ojeda
