The park contains monuments to Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Luis Emilio Recabarren, and Diego de Almagro.

[1][2] The park was first created as a public square in the mid-17th century, and became a market called Alameda de los Monos, or Cañada del Conventillo in 1828 after it was bought from Manuel Blanco Encalada.

It only became a park in 1983,[2] as part of a project to consolidate the Civic District of Santiago.

[3] The park covers 12 ha (30 acres) and is built on land originally reserved for a new national congress building of Chile.

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