The second stage of Front I includes to the construction of bays and an entrance, a warehouse, the rehabilitation of bathrooms, the construction of a crocodile farm, a nursery, a dock, and electrical connections.
The second stage of Front II includes finishes and signage in the tower, forklifts, electrical connections and lighting in the tower, and replacement of the perimeter fence in the damaged sections.
All the work is being carried out by the Jalisco Secretariat of Infrastructure and Public Works.
Alfaro said, “After having made an enormous effort in coordination with organized civil society, with academic institutions, we were able to expand the protected natural area – 208 hectares already, and then prepare a master plan that involved an enormous exercise in dialogue and consensus that allows us today to have a project with enormous social support.”
This space will be a legacy of the environmental capital that Puerto Vallarta is, and it is expected to be inaugurated in December of this year.
Its director, Jaime Torres, said that it is the only protected urban mangrove system in Latin America, and that its main ecosystem is mangrove and more than 167 species of birds. There are reptiles, mainly the river crocodile, that have been in the region more than 2,000 years. Hence the importance of this area, which today is being intervened with due measures.
He said, “That is the challenge: that people know how to live with the fauna that we have in Puerto Vallarta.”
Estero El Salado will be a place for teaching, and providing information on environmental awareness and culture, agreed those present, who were accompanied by representatives of the Congress of Jalisco.