Park
Viveros de Coyoacán
Viveros de Coyoacán, Del Carmen, 04100 Mexico City, CDMX
Historic forestry nursery raising seedlings on tree-lined grounds inside a former national park.
This guide to Viveros de Coyoacán in Mexico City follows Miguel Ángel de Quevedo, an engineer trained in hydraulics who came home obsessed with trees instead of dams. After Mexico's Second National Congress of Meteorology rejected his forest-protection proposal in 1901, he quietly gave away a hectare of his own ranch, right where you're standing, to raise seedlings by hand. A finance minister and a president would later back the project, but it started as one man's small act on this ground.
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