MEXICO CITY - In the heart of Mexico's southwestern state of Michoacán, Juan Madrigal spends his free time organizing to protect the city of Uruapan's urban ecological park, a 50-hectare (124-acre) plot of land at the edge of the Río Santa Bárbara. A state-protected area since 1995, the park's marshlands help to purify the surrounding Cupatitzio watershed, where nine natural springs provide drinking water to approximately half a million people. …
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The spaces located in Uruapan had undergone an irregular change of land use after the downing of trees to establish avocado orchards. Profepa restores 43 hectares in Michoacán appeared first in Eleven News.