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Parque Lineal Veredas del Labrador

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Type
  
Passive park

Operator
  
Ponce

Area
  
length = 12.7 km

Location
  
Barrio Primero, in Ponce, Puerto Rico

Coordinates
  
Phase I: from N 18.00841, W 66.60625 to N 17.99086 W 66.59702 and from N 18.00339 W 66.59357 to N 17.99086 W 66.59702 Phase II: from N 18.00811 W 66.60674 to N 17.96898 W 66.60079 Phase III: from N 18.00329 W 66.59329 to N 17.96828 W 66.59861

Created
  
1992 (Phase I), Phase II & III still under construction

Operated by
  
Autonomous Municipality of Ponce

The Parque Lineal Veredas del Labrador, also known as just Parque Lineal and as Veredas del Labrador, is a passive park currently under construction in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The park will link to, but it is different from, a neighboring park also currently under construction called Parque Ecológico Urbano. The park runs along the Río Portugués and Río Bucaná rivers in the city of Ponce.

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"Ponce En Marcha"

The park is under construction as part of the Ponce en Marcha plan. Parque Lineal started construction under the administration of mayor Francisco Zayas Seijo when an injection of $18 million was received from the Government of Puerto Rico as a result of a 1998 Supreme Court order, during the administration of mayor Churumba, and which mandated the Government of Puerto Rico to pay for certain infrastructure improvements in the municipality of Ponce.

Phases

The park consists of three mayor trenches and will be built in three corresponding phases. Phase I, consisting of 3.8 kilometers will run the along eastern bank of Río Portugués and along the western bank of Río Bucaná bordering the Julio Enrique Monagas Family Park. Phase II will stretch 4.9 km and run along the western bank of Rio Portugues until the point where it feeds Rio Bucana from where it continues running along the western bank of Rio Bucana until it empties in the Caribbean Sea. Phase III consists of 4 kilometers and runs along the eastern bank of Rio Bucana to the Caribbean Sea. As of October 2011, phase I was complete. As of May 2012 phase II had been completed also. Phase II was completed at a cost of $38.1 million.

Description

The park runs in a general north-south axis about 500 meters east of the center of the city. It makes its way though areas next to some of the city's landmarks, including Campo Atlético Charles H. Terry, Centro de Convenciones de Ponce (Complejo Ferial de Puerto Rico), and Parque Familiar Julio Enrique Monagas. It also brushes by the musical centers of the city - the residential communities of Bélgica and San Antón.

Cost

The entire project was estimated to cost $22 million to build, with Phase I costing $4.5 million. Phases II and III are being built at a cost of $18 million.

References

Parque Lineal Veredas del Labrador Wikipedia