Japanese Memorial
Immigration centenary.
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Pampulha Ecological Park, officially the Promotor Francisco Lins do Rego Park, is a park on Pampulha Lake in Belo Horizonte, run by the city's Zoo-Botanical Foundation. It opened in May 2004 on a site once called Ilha da Ressaca, designed by the architects Gustavo Penna, Álvaro Hardy and Mariza Machado Coelho. Its story is one of environmental recovery: disorderly building around the Pampulha basin silted up the lake, and millions of cubic metres of sediment were dredged out and piled to form the park's ground, which took about a decade to settle before plants and wildlife moved in. The park covers some 300,000 square metres of green space: an esplanade for sport, kite flying and big shows, a grove for picnics, a bandstand for cultural events, a slackline area and the Japanese Memorial built for the centenary of Japanese immigration to Brazil. It pairs well with the nearby Pampulha Modern Ensemble.
Immigration centenary.
For kites.
Around the park.
Pampulha Lake, Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte ZooBelo Horizonte Zoo is one of the city's leading attractions, in the Pampulha reg12 minutes walk4.2
Museu Casa KubitschekOn the shore of Lake Pampulha stands the weekend house Oscar Niemeyer designed f21 minutes walk4.8
Pampulha Modern EnsembleThe Pampulha Modern Ensemble is an urban project around the artificial Lake Pamp23 minutes walk4.8From sediment dredged out of Pampulha Lake and piled at the old Ilha da Ressaca.