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A Short Description of Santa Cruz City Tours

These tours may last in  2 or 3 hours.

During this time you can visit some residential areas and a few of the main avenues where you can see many kinds of businesses settled in these avenues. These business can vary from restaurants to  offices of different companies.

The  city of Santa cruz is divided by avenues in the form of a circle. The avenues  go around the city forming a big circle. These avenues are called Anillos ( rings )

In the central part of  one of the main avenues which is called primer anillo (first ring) you can see some interesting trees species like the beautiful "Tajibo" (Tabebuia serratifolia). This tree about each june changes its leaves for flowers.

Also in these green areas in the middle of the primer anillo is also  possible to appreciate another big tree called  "toborochi" o "palo borracho" (Chorisia speciosa) The tree trunk  of this specie has a special  shape, worthy of being observed.   The "Toborochi" blooms a few months of every  year.

Still going on the first ring,  is striking (for those who know  about the high value of these trees) to see about 20 large "Mahogany" (Swietenia macrophylla) All togher in down town of  the  chaotic city of Santa Cruz.

Going out  of the segundo anillo (second ring) It is easy  to realize the bad planning of the streets and avenues of the city. And  the great neglect on caring of public spaces and green areas. 

It gives a bad image to anyone passing through these streets.

This situation far from improving the quality of life of its inhabitants may cause sadness to them.

The central plaza of the city, in the year 2004 under  the administration of a mayor named Roberto Fernandez, was remodeled or redesigned.  This meant the sacrifice of several large trees which had many years of existence.

Also during this modification of the  main square, many and big branches of anscient trees were chop.

As if it were not sufficient depredation in the main square, large green areas of grass were  replaced with tiles  or cement.

After this model of depredation, the same was  done  to others plazas  of the city. The most recent example is the Arenal Park.

Nowadays, in different public green areas,  the city hall  have used  and is using  the  same method of removing  the grass  to replace it with concrete or stones

The result of these actions is that the green areas with trees  have become areas of cement and no trees, which helps to the overheating environment increasing the stress of passersby whether they are on foot or by vehicle.