Parque Urbano Dora Colón Clavell (English: Dora Colón Clavell Urban Park) is a passive park in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The park is named after the mother of ex-governor of Puerto Rico and Ponce native, Rafael Hernández Colón. It opened on 9 December 1995. The park was designed by Ponce architect Juan Dalmau Sambolín.Jose Enrique Ayoroa Santaliz. Un hito en su tiempo: la fuente de agua subterránea de la Plaza Las Delicias. La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. Year 39. Issue 1993. 9-15 February 2022. pp.8-9. Archived.

Location The park is a passive urban family park. It is located in Ponce's Historic District, near several museums and parks, including the Ponce Massacre Museum and the Abolition Park. It features a number of kiosks that open on an as-needed basis (i.e., depending on the function taking place at the park) and a central stage where the Banda Municipal de Ponce stages free open-air concerts.Dora Colón Clavell Urban Park. Let'sGoToPonce.com Retrieved 25 April 2010. The location where the park now sits used to be occupied by Hospital Damas before it moved to its current location on Ponce By Pass on 6 May 1973.Carmelo Rosario Natal. Ponce En Su Historia Moderna: 1945-2002. Published by Secretaría de Cultura y Turismo of the Government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 2003. p. 253.Nuestra Historia. Hospital Damas. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2012.

History The park was built in 1995 under the administration of mayor Churumba and, in the same year, it received the award for Outstanding Construction Work of the Year (Spanish: "Obra Sobresaliente del Año") from the College of Engineers and Surveyors of Puerto Rico.Act No. 256 (H. B. 2988) of the 7th Session of the 15th Legislature of Puerto Rico. Retrieved 25 April 2010. Archived. It was built with an original appropriation of $5.5 million. Final cost in December 1995 was $11 million.Dora Colon Clavell Urban Park. TravelPonce.com. Accessed 112 February 2022. Archived.

Amenities The park features gardens, a Mudéjar-style kiosk for the Ponce Municipal Band traditional Sunday concerts, a trolley stop, a restaurant, and food stands.Plaza Del Caribe Tourism information. Retrieved 25 April 2010. This Mudéjar-style kiosk is a smaller replica of the one built on Plaza Las Delicias, in 1882, but since demolished, for the town's 1882 Feria-Exposición.Jose Enrique Ayoroa Santaliz. Un hito en su tiempo: la fuente de agua subterránea de la Plaza Las Delicias. La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. Year 39. Issue 1993. 9-15 February 2022. pp.8-9. It was designed by José Carlos Villaró, a Spanish architect from Málaga.Dora Colon Clavell Urban Park. TravelPonce.com. Accessed 112 February 2022. Archived.

The park also has an underground parking garage with two levels. In the first (top-most) level of the garage there is a Ponce tourist police station.Free Municipal Parking Lot. LetsGo: Destinations, Ponce. Retrieved 25 April 2010. The parking garage has space for 400 vehicles.

See also

History of the Autonomous City of Ponce

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