Replanting tasks began in the Parque de los Vientos

The Parque de los Vientos, one of the most popular places for Catamarca residents, will remain closed until the end of the month because the Environment Secretariat of the Capital Municipality began the replanting and beautification tasks scheduled prior to the start of the summer holidays. winter.

Agricultural engineer Amparo Barrionuevo, administrator of Green Spaces of the Environment Secretariat of the Municipality of the Capital, commented that the work began yesterday morning. “If the weather is with us and everything goes well, it wouldn’t take more than three weeks for us to start what the holidays are, the Poncho Festival in a super renovated and beautiful space,” she said.

“What we are doing is a reseeding and beautification of the entire park, we are going to set up flower beds with plants of different species and make a movement of grass, a reseeding throughout the park from end to end,” he said.

Regarding the closure of the park, he said that it will be total, because “we have already had experiences where we tried to close the grass bed but people still got in our way, so we also need to do a complete job and not be interrupted so we can do it as quickly as possible.” as quickly as possible.”

He pointed out that this work will not only be carried out in the Parque de los Vientos, but also in Jorge Bermúdez Square, on Italia Avenue, at the roundabouts and at the south access.

Vandalism

Barrionuevo warned that in the squares generally “we complain a lot about vandalism, more than the entire irrigation system. They steal a lot of what the sprinklers are, it is worth saying that this is of no use because it is not that we are going to put a sprinkler at the back of the house so that it waters like a little frog, but it needs a whole system of power pumps for that sprinkler to work. Plants also take a lot of it, or children out there who are not controlled by their parents.” , said.

“But as time goes by we see and feel that people are getting used to it, and loving and caring for green spaces more. There is more awareness among people. Before, when I started, it was one thing that we would put a plant and then another day it was gone, now we set up flowerbeds and we see that people take more care than before,” he said.

Improvements

The agronomist also commented that the installation of drinking fountains and chemical baths is being planned. “We have noticed that people complain a lot about the lack of drinking fountains. This is a Public Works project, by Aguas de Catamarca, because at that altitude there is no drinking water and that is the problem, but we are working on it to see how we can solve it,” he concluded.