Parque Mirador de los Nevados, Urban park in Suba, Bogotá, Colombia.
Parque Mirador de los Nevados is a metropolitan park in Suba, Bogotá, at 2,882 meters elevation, covering 6 hectares in a concave, roundabout-like layout. Its 9 key spots include the Plazoleta del Reloj, Plazoleta Sua, the La Toma ravine, the Obeliscos, Plazoleta Moxa, Plazoleta del Mirador, Plazoleta del Equinoccio, Plazoleta Bochica and Plazoleta Astral or Bachué.
The site originally served as a cemetery for the Muisca people and later became farmland used for water extraction. After decades of use as a quarry, the land was eventually transformed into a park in the early 2000s, now honoring the area's indigenous past.
The park's name refers to the snow-capped peaks visible from its viewpoint on clear days: the Nevados del Tolima, Cisne, Ruiz and Santa Isabel. Its layout follows Muisca cosmology, with plazas and obelisks named after that culture, among them the Plazoleta Sua, Moxa, Bochica and Astral or Bachué. The park lies within Suba's indigenous resguardo and hosts the Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente's Aulas Ambientales programme.
The park is easily accessible from Suba's central area by walking north from the main plaza and following signs toward the entrance. The grounds are walkable with several routes available, and the viewing points are best visited on clear days when visibility is at its best.
The park sits on the site of a former indigenous cemetery, later the Finca La Toma, which supplied Suba's water, and from 1950 a quarry for construction materials. After the quarry closed, a landfill was considered before the land became a passive-recreation park, handed over in 2001 and legally constituted an Urban Metropolitan Park by decree 069 of 2002.
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