Identificación y diagnóstico de las áreas verdes urbanas de la administración zonal Eloy Alfaro del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito

Abstract

Abstract:The present research works consists to establish a diagnosis of the condition of urban green areas of the Administración Zonal Eloy Alfaro AZEA, by means of the elaboration of an inventory through observation of public spaces for recreation, entertainment, enjoyment y sports practices of the habitants of the city. These areas preserve an important number of introduced and native flora. The urban green areas of AZEA are maintained by the Unidad Municipal de Parques y Jardines, . For the purpose of this research work, a methodology was adopted based on the observation and description of urban green areas, which has been reflected in the different tables, figures and photographs, resulting from the field work, which gave as a general result, the existence 354 urban green areas, divided in turn into 10 boulevards, 29 sports fields, 51 publics parks and 264 flowerbeds in the main roads of this part of the city. In addition, it was possible to show that most of these publics spaces are in a precarious state of conservation, lacking in maintenance. And to this must be added the advent of Covid 19.