The Mário Pimenta Camargo Municipal Park, or People's Park, was inaugurated on 28 September 2008, in the district of
Itaim Bibi
Itaim Bibi is a district in the subprefecture of Pinheiros in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It includes in its area an eponymous neighborhood.
Popularly and in some reports, the region once belonged to the South Zone, but is administered by th ...
, in the district of
Chácara Itaim, in
São Paulo
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,
Brazil
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. The People's Park is referred to as the "Parque do Povo" in Portuguese.
The park
It is an area of that counts on a sports complex of three multisports courts with special marking for paralympic sports, green grass soccer field, cycling track skateboarding, walking, running track, a real-life chess game in which people can move the huge pieces in a checkered board on the ground, track and exercise equipment for the public to enjoy. In the grand open area of the lawn that is located in the central part, it is possible to sunbathe or picnic in the middle of the trees.
The Sensitive Garden, which has aromatic herbs, gives the public the opportunity to smell, touch or even taste some of the delicacies that grow in the garden, such as mustard, coriander, green odor, chives, aloe and basil. The place has full accessibility for people with reduced mobility, made with materials recovered from demolitions carried out by the city for the construction of its sidewalks, such as the recyclable waste of buildings found in the central region of the city of São Paulo.
Fauna and flora
The place has an advantageous amount of greenery, full of
nature
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all around. In terms of
bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class (biology), class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the Oviparity, laying of Eggshell, hard-shelled eggs, a high Metabolism, metabolic rate, a fou ...
species typical of open environments alone, more than 37 types can be found, such as the
scissor-tailed hummingbird, the
woodpecker
Woodpeckers are part of the bird family (biology), family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks and sapsuckers. Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar and the extreme ...
, the
great kiskadee
The great kiskadee (''Pitangus sulphuratus''), called ''bem-te-vi'' in Brazil, ''pitogue'' in Paraguay, ''benteveo'' or ''bichofeo'' in Argentina and Uruguay, and ''luis bienteveo'', ''pitabil'', ''luis grande'' or ''chilera'' in Mexico, is a pas ...
, the
thrush
Thrush may refer to:
Birds
* Thrush (bird), any of the birds in the family Turdidae
** List of thrush species
* Antthrushes, the Formicariidae family of birds
* Dohrn's warbler, or Dohrn's thrush-babbler, a species ''Sylvia dohrni'' in the famil ...
, and the
tico-tico. In the treetops or when flying overhead, you can see the
great macaw, the
tuim, the
coconut tanager, the ferreirinho-relógio, the
alegrinho and the
pitiguari. As for plants, there are 32 species distributed in themed sets composed of native and exotic fruit trees, hardwoods and climbing plants, among which the
grumixama and the
brazilwood
''Paubrasilia echinata'' is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is endemic to the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. It is a Brazilian timber tree commonly known as Pernambuco wood or brazilwood (, ; Tupi: ) and is the na ...
are endangered.
See also
*
Villa-Lobos State Park
Villa-Lobos State Park () is a park in São Paulo, Brazil. It is named after composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, and is located next to Pinheiros River. It was created in 1989 on a site that was previously used as a rubbish tip. The park now has around 3 ...
References
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Parks in São Paulo
Tourist attractions in São Paulo (state)