Parque Forestal

Parque Forestal
Type Urban park
Location Santiago, Chile
Created 1905
Status Open all year

Parque Forestal is an urban park in the city of Santiago, Chile. The park was created on reclaimed land from the Mapocho River.

Parque Forestal is located in the historical downtown of Santiago, west of Plaza Baquedano and east of Estación Mapocho. It is bordered on the north by Santa María Avenue, on the south by Merced Street and Ismael Valdés Vergara Street.

The park contains the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Distinctive features of the park are its three lines of platanus orientalis trees.

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