Marikina River Park

The Marikina River Park is a device of parks, trails, open areas and activity facilities along an 11-kilometre stretch of the Marikina River in Marikina, eastern Metro Manila, Philippines. The urban riverside park covers an area of 220 hectares running via the villages of Santo Nino, Santa Elena, Jesus dela Pena, San Roque, Calumpang, Barangka and Industrial Valley Complex within the western part of the city.

The park, below development due to the fact that 1993, is the city's largest recreational and sports place containing the Riverbanks Center, a mall and workplace complex, and the largest curler skating rink within the Philippines. It is a famous region for tenting, running, cycling and other outside sports not only for Marikina residents but additionally for the ones from nearby towns in Metro Manila. The park turned into evolved as part of a rehabilitation software known as Save the Marikina River Program via the Marikina City Government. Launched in 1993, the program ambitions to reduce flooding and enhance the Marikina riverbanks for higher water discharge after a 1992 flood left 25% of the metropolis under floodwater.