It was idealized by José Coelho da Gama e Abreu [pt], the Baron of Marajó, and inaugurated in 1883, in the then Province of Grão-Pará, during the reign of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.

[4] In 1625, due to Belém's strategic position at the mouth of the Amazon River, the Portuguese set up a commercial tax warehouse, the Casa de Ver-o-Peso [pt],[5][6] to collect taxes on European products imported into Belém,[6] and those exported outside the Amazon (such as drugs from the sertão [pt] and beef from the island of Marajó).

[7] In 1627, the importance of the entrepôt increased with the creation of the first league patrimonial by Governor Francisco Coelho de Carvalho [pt]: a 4110-hectare portion of land (starting on the banks of the Pará and Guamá rivers) donated by the Portuguese Crown to the Belém City Council, to boost population growth towards the interior,[5][8][9] in the region of the Caeté River inhabited since 1613 (now the municipality of Bragança),[10][11] giving rise to the Marco da Légua neighborhood[12] and leveraging a population increase.

[15] The president of the province of Grão-Pará, José Coelho da Gama Abreu, the Baron of Marajó, who, inspired by the large Parisian boulervard Bois de Bolongne, designed a replica in Belém, a symbol of the modernization of Belém at the time.

[1][15] In 1929, the capital's senator and intendant, Antônio de Almeida Facióla [pt] (appointed by Governor Eurico de Freitas Vale [pt]), restored all the works of art and toys in the grove and completed the construction of the wall and railings around it.

The vegetation consists of native forest from the period when the region was not occupied, an area preserved since the end of the 19th century, with plants and trees characteristic of the Amazon.