Parque Indoamericano, Public park in Villa Soldati, Argentina.
Parque Indoamericano covers about 130 hectares across Villa Soldati and Villa Lugano, making it Buenos Aires's second-largest park. Its flat, open ground holds a painted court with a small soccer goal, a thatched-roof shelter on the dirt, and a carousel with a striped canopy and painted animal seats. White and grey apartment blocks with balconies stand behind the park.
The land lay on a flood-prone plain of the Bajo Flores, drained by the Cildáñez Stream, which Mayor Francisco Rabanal had tubed in 1966. In 1978 Mayor Osvaldo Cacciatore announced a Parque de la Ciudad and a Parque Zoofitogeográfico with an arboretum meant to receive the Buenos Aires Zoo; only the amusement park opened in 1982, and the zoo project was cancelled. Councilman Carlos Louzán obtained the park's creation in 1993, and Mayor Jorge Domínguez inaugurated it on 1 December 1995.
The Paseo de los Derechos Humanos, opened on 11 December 2006 by mayor Jorge Telerman, is a memorial to the victims of state terrorism. It is one of two promenades laid out along the park's western end, the other being the Paseo de las Malvinas.
The park lies in Villa Soldati and Villa Lugano, far from the city's main residential and business districts, so allow travel time. The memorial promenades, Paseo Islas Malvinas and Paseo de los Derechos Humanos, sit along the western end, where most of the improvements were built; much of the rest remained open field. The Cildáñez Stream runs tubed and hidden beneath the grounds.
The unfinished Zoofitogeográfico project left only water tanks, or piletones, on the plain; around them grew the settlement of Los Piletones, later replaced by a social housing neighbourhood won in a 2007 competition by the Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo.
The community of curious travelers
AroundUs brings together thousands of curated places, local tips, and hidden gems, enriched daily by 92,632 contributors worldwide.