page_title: Parque del Este
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Parque del Este / History
caption_attribution_description: Español: Patios en el sector Norte Parque Generalisimo Francisco de Miranda Caracas - Venezuela
context_page_description: Parque del Este, officially Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda Park, in honor of the Venezuelan national hero, is a public recreation park located in the Sucre Municipality of Metropolitan Caracas in Venezuela. Opened in 1961, it is one of the most important of the city, with an area of 82 hectares. The park was designed by Roberto Burle Marx and associates Fernando Tabora and John Stoddart.
  The park is located just outside the station Miranda Line 1 of the Caracas Metro. East Park is managed and supervised by the National Parks Institute, an agency under the Ministry of Popular Power for the Environment.
  The park combines three differently designed areas: the first is an open grass field with a gentle undulating topography, the second is a densely forested landscape with meandering pathways, while the third is a series of paved gardens with tiled murals and water works.
context_section_description: The park is located on part of the land of the ancient hacienda San Jose. (10 ° 29'38 "N - 66 ° 50'8" W) The hacienda still exists and is located between the existing park boundaries and the distributor Santa Cecilia, in front of the Caracas Museum of Transport. 
  The area was covered with forest vegetation composed primarily of old Bucares (Erythrina spp.) on which hung strands of Lagas Palo Beard (Tillandsia usneoides); in addition there were old coffee trees (Coffea arabica).
  The park's inauguration took place under the government of President Romulo Betancourt on January 19, 1961 under the Decree No. 443 May 1960 and was designed by Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx and associates Fernando Tabora and John Stoddart.
  When first opened the park was designed to receive about 6,000 visitors per month; in 2008 the park received 270,000 visitors a month.
caption: Patios in the north sector of the Park
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