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Lagoon Park The Polvora.

Located to the south of the city of Villahermosa, in front of cultural set CICOM, in the margins of which outside lagoon of Mayito.

ORIGIN
Illegally east name occurred him, when confusing its constructors the lagoon of Mayito with the one of the Powder.

Call thus for a long time, because, towards 1800, in one of hills bordering to the lagoon today dried, where at the moment the streets of Allende and Pedro C. Colorado converge, it was originally constructed to a hut of fence and called guano "the Casemate", where stored to powder and other implementos military.

The town of Villahermosa called to that powder magazine "the Powder to him" and by extension, also it was called to him thus to the lagoon in whose borders this powder magazine rose.

DESCRIPTION She is one of the more extensive green areas in the city; what was a marsh, was transformed into a beautiful water mirror surrounded by grass, plants of ornato and leafy trees of almond tree, macuilís, ficus, willow, handle and palm.

Account with walking, infantile track of cycling and athletics, games, palapas, banks, lights, small viewpoints and artificial cascades that oxygenate calm waters of the fragment of recovered lagoon, in which they inhabit fish like trout, mojarra and pejelagarto.

The place characterizes by its tranquillity and freshness; very it is frequented, mainly the week ends, by familiar and sport groups.

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