Central Park of Arona, Las Americas

The Central Park of Arona is a public space of 42,000 m2 located in the tourist resort of Playa de Las Americas in Arona, Tenerife, Canary Islands. It has several plazas, playgrounds and parks, schools, courts, hospital, residential areas and highways.

The park was commissioned by the Cabildo de Tenerife GBGV and was designed by Architects (Architect Jorge Mosquera Paniagua) and botanist Carlo Morici. It was opened in 2004.

It has a road network that weaves a series of squares of triangular geometry. There is a section planted with palm trees, with two decks of plants, tapizantes pyramids, and another section repopulated with native flora of southern Tenerife.

The Barranco del Camison crosses the park, densely repopulated with native flora. The school is surrounded by tamarinds alignments and macadamias.

Flora and Vegetation

Approximately one third of the area houses a collection of over 40 species of palm trees, planted in a grid of 6 x 6 m entemezcladas with tropical trees.  This expands the family of Bombacaceae with Chorisia speciosa, Bombax ceiba, Ceiba pentandra and several baobabs and Adansonia digitata Adansonia grandidieri. The square near the courthouse has 10 copies of the African baobab (Adansonia digitata).

The rest of the area hosts indigenous flora of southern Tenerife. Part of it was destroyed over the years and designed Morici was an environmental reconstruction of coastal scrub canary, typically characterized by Euphorbia balsamifera (tabaibas) and Euphorbia canariensis (cactus).

In several places seedlings have been planted (Pistacia atlantica) which is the tree of the municipality of Arona and dozens of copies of Dracaena draco (dragon trees), and Phoenix canariensis (Canary palms) along the ravine.

The area around the school parking lot is aligned with tamarinds and macadamias and copies of Melicoccus bijugatus, Cassia javanica and others.