In 2021, the Gran Canal was inaugurated, a linear park of almost 6km that with its skatepark, games and green areas, has united more than 20 neighborhoods that were previously segregated in Venustiano Carranza.
This great piece of the city used to be the Gran Canal del Desagüe -from which it partially takes its name- a work inaugurated by Porfirio Díaz on March 17, 1900 to prevent floods and diseases. This Grand Canal not only sought the welfare of the commercial sector, but also the sanitation of the capital, thanks to its connection to the new sewage and sewage drainage system.
In the end, this Grand Canal, which ran through a large part of the city, including the Venustiano Carranza Delegation, did not save it from floods and epidemics. According to El Universal "...the soil of the city began to sink alarmingly in the middle of the 20th century and, as a consequence, the Grand Canal lost the slope with which it had been built of 16.2 centimeters per kilometer so that the water would flow by gravity".
The Gran Canal linear park today stretches from the Terminal de Autobuses de Pasajeros de Oriente, in the municipality of Venustiano Carranza, to the Bosque de San Juan de Aragón, in Gustavo A. Madero. With a bike path, skatepark and jogging track, this park makes use of these thematic pavilions for all types of inhabitants to visit.
Gran Canal Lineal Park, Gran Canal del Desagüe Ave. 390B, Ampliación Venustiano Carranza. Monday - Sunday, 24 hours.
