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Sheinbaum Promotes Texcoco Ecological Park, Announces January Registration for Sports

The president framed the former airport site as a public green space that delivers social and environmental benefits.

Overview

  • Claudia Sheinbaum released a video from the Parque Ecológico Lago de Texcoco, inviting people to visit its facilities during a tour with State of Mexico Governor Delfina Gómez.
  • She said new registrations for sports and recreational activities at the park will open starting in January.
  • The site is presented as a 14,000-hectare protected area with operational fields for baseball, soccer and American football, as well as a functioning gym.
  • She reiterated that the previously planned airport at Texcoco was inviable and argued it would have faced sinking and structural problems.
  • Coverage notes the area was decreed a protected natural area in 2022 and in 2025 UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme recognized Texcoco as Mexico’s first Demonstrative Site of Ecohydrology.