Parque Juarez El Llano (Juarez El Llano Park), Oaxaca

Parque Juarez El Llano (Juarez El Llano Park) is a public park in the Historic Center of the city of Oaxaca, one of the oldest in that city.

The space was already called Llano de Guadalupe at the end of the 18th century as it was next to a temple dedicated to that Marian devotion that was part of the convent of the religious of the Order of the Betlemites.

On this same site, in front of the plain, an early building was built around 1694, the Hospital de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, also owned by the religious, who performed this work until its closure in 1820. This building was made by action of the benefactor Manuel Fernández Fiallo, and was completed around 1686, under the direction of Alonso Cuevas Dávalos, Oaxacan prelate.

In the 18th century, due to the high costs generated by its medical activity, the hospital fell into decline. During the war of independence the hospital was closed, and in 1848 Benito Juárez decided to establish it as a military hospital.

The plain area could have had works that diverted some channels of the nearby Xalatlaco River.

At the beginning of the 19th century it was already used as a recreational area for walks and it appears as La Alameda in the layout of the city made by Manuel Gijón.

In said layout it appears with a rectangular layout crossed by a total of eight intersections with a central square occupied by a fountain. In 1812 José María Morelos, who was in the city after it was taken by the Insurgent Army, ordered works so that the boulevard could serve as a training site for his troops and ordered the construction of a quarry fountain.