Mouth Park of the Old River Turia

This diversion has played a crucial role in minimising the impact on the city of València of the floods caused by the DANA of 29 October 2024. The new channel managed to keep the northernmost towns and neighbourhoods safe from flooding and highlights the value of this type of adaptation and prevention actions.

Inaugurated in the 1980s, the Turia Park stretches over 10 kilometres, from the Bioparc in the west to the City of Arts and Sciences in the east. The park winds through the former riverbed and has become the green lung of València, offering a space for leisure, sport, and culture to both residents and visitors. With extensive areas for walking, cycling, sports, play, and relaxation, the park connects various points of interest across the city, functioning as a green corridor that links neighbourhoods and helps alleviate urban traffic.

This project aims to develop and landscape the final section of the Turia River Garden, from the Astilleros Bridge to its mouth, connecting to the La Punta agricultural area, thus linking the environment, the city, and the neighbourhood of Nazaret.

It is a project where biodiversity is highlighted as one of the three central axes, where trees and plants typical of our climate are recovered, which will attract the species typical of our area that will find their most suitable habitat in the park. In addition, the Mouth Park will help prevent flooding in Nazaret and El Grau.

A second axis is that of the vertebration of the city through the green infrastructure, since thanks to the Mouth Park, València will be able to complete the extension of the Turia River, crossing the whole city from west to east.

Finally, the third axis is the historical reparation that begins with Nazaret, since the Mouth Park means the recovery of parks, orchards, and connection to the sea that the neighbourhood has been losing for years.

And within these three axes we place people as the main protagonists of an intergenerational, green, friendly, attractive, accessible project, where meeting, sport and life in the open air take centre stage.

There are 100,000 m² of parkland to be incorporated into the city, where social uses take centre stage: the children's areas will have their own character with landmarks that will make them unique; the canine socialisation areas; the sports facilities and differentiated routes for cyclists and pedestrians; the bio-healthy areas designed especially for the elderly, which will be accessible from the different entrances to the park and will be an effective and real extension of the Nazaret neighbourhood itself.

The functional layout of the lighting, where indirect lighting will be used to avoid light pollution and will be attenuated in the secondary paths; the arrangement of urban furniture where wood will be prioritised as an integrating element, will be other elements that will give the development of the park its own personality. On the other hand, the efficient management of water and the energy efficiency of the park, through low-consumption lighting, will make the environmental sustainability of the entire park possible. In addition, the project minimises the use of pavements and hard landscaping, with the intention of going for a naturalistic look.

And all these features revolve around the intention of creating a real urban forest, inspired by the Mediterranean forests of our environment. To this creation will be added the didactic value that will define the proposal with signposted routes that will discover and bring us closer to environmental knowledge through digital technologies.

The Mouth Park will therefore represent the culmination of a global city project that will link green València from west to east all the way to the sea.