Ñu Guasú Park
| Parque Ñu Guasú | |
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| Type | Urban park |
| Location | Luque, Paraguay |
| Coordinates | 25°15′52″S 57°32′10″W / 25.26444°S 57.53611°W |
| Area | 25 acres (0.10 km2) |
| Owned by | Communications and Public Constructions Ministry |
| Status | Open all year |
The Ñu Guasú Park (Spanish: Parque Ñu Guasú) is an urban park located in Luque, in the Central Department of Paraguay, near the Silvio Pettirossi International Airport. A green area of about 25 hectares, it has been transformed into a recreational park, in part due to ample tree coverage. It is maintained through the Communications and Public Constructions Ministry of Paraguay, through the Public Constructions Direction, dependent of the Vice-Ministry. It's one of the biggest and most well-known park in the Greater Asunción area.
Ñu Guasú Park has a 5-kilometer walking/jogging path and a 1.2-kilometer bicycle path. It also has soccer, volleyball, basketball, and tennis facilities. There are also areas for children to play and areas for doing gymnastic exercises.
The main objective of the park is to give the community a place for sharing and recreation. There is no cost to enter the park.
The park has 25 hectares of green space, equipped with lanes, sport courts, children playgrounds, bars and resting areas.
The park is in kept in good condition by many companies, some of them private, trying to maintain the infrastructure in the best conditions because the place is one of the lungs of the Luque and Asunción area.
One on-going project is the maintenance of the paths and another is the forestation of the park, trying to provide the adequate oxygenation of the park. There is also an area for doing physical exercise, with machines that help fortifying the body.
The place also counts with attention for visitors and general information offices, touristic information area, exposition, deposit and hygienic services. However, amongst the information that is not presented, we can include data found on a project research in 2015 regarding one of the two lakes that can be found in the park. The research conlcuded with a statement that suggested that the lake could be contaminated, as it included different species of microalgae (like chlorophytes and cyanobacterias) that are bioindicators of posible contamiantion in water sources, as well as the observation of different animal species that are not native to this country. These animals could be sources of contamination, as they are carriers of contaminating agents from a close-by sewage.
There is also a parking lot, an ambulance and a fire truck; the food area has 1445 square meters.
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