Parque de Miraflores, a historic garden across the street

Miraflores began as a planned development in the late 1940s, on former common land known as La Chanca, in southwestern Cali. The first lots were sold in 1947 and, from the start, the neighborhood was laid out around a horseshoe: a green boulevard that is its central space and the starting point of its curving streets.

That boulevard is Parque de Miraflores, which many people call Parque La Herradura. The City of Cali attributes it to the Austrian urban planner Karl Brunner, whose ideas shaped the neighborhood’s 1949 zoning plan. Its triangular layout creates a distinctive perspective effect.

Today it is a Cultural Heritage Asset of Cali, with Level 1 Full Conservation, the highest level of protection, and it is classified as a Historic Garden. That protection aims to preserve its layout, its vegetation and its role as the heart of the neighborhood.

• BIC Mr-18Cultural Heritage Asset of Cali
• Level 1Full Conservation
• Historic Gardenper the official Land Use Plan record
• Karl Brunnerplanner it is attributed to

Miraflores is a residential neighborhood of houses with front gardens. Since its early years it has been home to families from Cali and from abroad, and it keeps that neighborly feel where people know each other. Mornings begin with birdsong, and in the afternoon people walk under the park’s trees.