Parque Urbano Dora Colón Clavell (Dora Colón Clavell Urban Park) | |
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Type | Passive park |
Location | Marina and Jobos Streets, Barrio Primero, in Ponce, Puerto Rico |
Coordinates | 18°00′29.15″N 66°36′50.04″W / 18.0080972°N 66.6139000°W |
Area | approx 4 cuerdas |
Created | 1995 |
Designer | William Ramirez Gurratán [1] |
Operated by | Autonomous Municipality of Ponce |
Open | Daily |
Status | Open |
Parking | Underground parking garage (400 spaces [2]) |
Parque Urbano Dora Colón Clavell (English: Dora Colón Clavell Urban Park) is a passive park in Ponce, Puerto Rico. [3] The park is named after the mother of ex-governor of Puerto Rico and Ponce native, Rafael Hernández Colón. [4] It opened on 9 December 1995. [1] The park was designed by Ponce architect Juan Dalmau Sambolín. [5]
The park is a passive urban family park. It is located in Ponce's Historic District, near several museums and parks, including the Ponce Massacre Museum and the Abolition Park. It features a number of kiosks that open on an as-needed basis (i.e., depending on the function taking place at the park) and a central stage where the Banda Municipal de Ponce stages free open-air concerts. [6] The location where the park now sits used to be occupied by Hospital Damas before it moved to its current location on Ponce By Pass on 6 May 1973. [7] [8]
The park was built in 1995 under the administration of mayor Churumba and, in the same year, it received the award for Outstanding Construction Work of the Year (Spanish: "Obra Sobresaliente del Año") from the College of Engineers and Surveyors of Puerto Rico. [9] It was built with an original appropriation of $5.5 million. [7] Final cost in December 1995 was $11 million. [10]
The park features gardens, a Mudéjar-style kiosk for the Ponce Municipal Band traditional Sunday concerts, a trolley stop, a restaurant, and food stands. [11] This Mudéjar-style kiosk is a smaller replica of the one built on Plaza Las Delicias, in 1882, but since demolished, for the town's 1882 Feria-Exposición. [12] It was designed by José Carlos Villaró, a Spanish architect from Málaga. [13]
The park also has an underground parking garage with two levels. In the first (top-most) level of the garage there is a Ponce tourist police station. [14] The parking garage has space for 400 vehicles. [2]