Transforming Industry Into recreation.After 86 years of steel and iron production, the Compania Fundidora de Fierro y Acero de Monterrey (Monterrey Steel Foundry Co.), Monterrey, Mexico, closed its doors in 1986, but the contribution it made to the city continues to touch its residents. Several of the facility's buildings still stand on the site as the framework for Fundidora Park Fundidora Park is a public park located east of Monterrey, Mexico, inside the former Monterrey Foundry property. The park has an area of 120 hectares. The Monterrey Foundry (Monterrey Steel Foundry Company) operated from 1900 until its bankruptcy in 1986. , a 285-acre public park built on the former metalcaster's land. The park has been called Fundidora Park Industrial Archeology Place Museum because the still-standing structures from the Monterrey Steel Foundry Co. reflect the history of the beginning of industrialization industrialization Process of converting to a socioeconomic order in which industry is dominant. The changes that took place in Britain during the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and 19th century led the way for the early industrializing nations of western Europe and in Mexico. The metalcasting facility was the first of its kind in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . The park is located in the center of Monterrey, 124 miles south of the Texas border. It includes a convention center, hotels, museums, Sesame Street Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. Park, Monterrey Arena, an auditorium and other cultural venues. More than 13,000 native trees cover the grounds of the park, which features a 6-acre lake, playgrounds, hiking trails, a natural spring and 128 acres of green space. Every year, the park hosts the Champ Car World Series Grand Prix of Monterrey, and it hosted the A1 Grand Prix A1GP (formally A1 Grand Prix) is an open-wheel auto racing series. It is unique in its field in that competitors represent their nation as opposed to a constructor, which is traditional in most formula racing series including Formula One. racing series this year. Fundidora Park also has been the venue of United Nations and Organization of American States Organization of American States (OAS), international organization, created Apr. 30, 1948, at Bogotá, Colombia, by agreement of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, summits. Four and a half million people visited the park in 2002, the second year it was opened. It has become a retreat for Monterrey residents and a destination for tourists. |
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