La Carolina Park

Parque La Carolina is a 165.5-acre 670,000 m² park inside the middle of the Quito primary enterprise district , bordered with the aid of the avenues of the Amazon River, the Shyris, the United Nations, Eloy Alfaro, and the Republic. This park started from the expropriation of the farm La Carolina in 1939. The design of the park turned into made with the aid of the Dirección Metropolitana de Planificación Territorial DMPT. Pope John Paul II headed a splendid Catholic mass in the park at some stage in his visit to Ecuador in 1985, and a giant Christian go has been built in this location. Quiteños collect at La Carolina totally on weekends to play football, basketball, and ecua-volley, that is an Ecuadorian version of volleyball with less emphasis on spiking, permitting greater of a throw.

Some of the alternative sports are aerobics, kite flying, going for walks, snacking, and people looking. The southern part of the park has a small pond wherein paddle boats may be rented and a skatepark for bicyclists and skateboarders. Artists are acknowledged to carry out on weekends at the park. In the western a part of the park are the Quito Exhibition Center, the Quito botanical gardens, and a Vivarium.