The Municipality of La Matanza de Acentejo build in El Montillo Natural Park its first skate park, with an area of about 1,200 square meters. It will have an area to practice skate, skateboard, skates and BMX and a circuit PumpTrack, adapted for minors who are starting out in this sporting activity. The Matanzas government stresses that the works on this new sports space “are proceeding at a good pace after it began at the end of last year, which strengthens the possibility that may be completed over the next summer“.
The phase corresponding to the perimeter fence of the acrobatic tracks, executed with exposed stone walls that integrate this new leisure and sports space into the environment. The project, which will add once completed will have 1,186 square meters of useful arearuns next to the climbing wall that the Matanzas park already has.
The ramp design is designed in such a way that it is a space flexible and adapted to different types of sports without focusing exclusively on any of them. Both bicycles and skateboards, roller blades and skateboards will have the best conditions to be able to circulate on them, and the fact of creating a space for PumpTrack separated from the Skate will allow the development without risk of initiation activities or its use by the little ones.
This leisure and sports resource is set up next to the El Montillo Natural Park climbing wall
with this equipment the Municipality of La Matanza It responds to the growing citizen demand registered for this type of spaces, which are very scarce on the island and for the most part without facilities for children’s use. The local government (PSOE) emphasizes that “the popularity of skateboarding is increasing, its sporting nature being recognized beyond any doubt after its debut last August in the 2020 tokyo olympics“.
