Sector, Group, Manzana
Villa el Salvador is known for its urban planning and organization. It has won numerous international prizes and was even nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize! This is how it works:
The 'town planning', taken on by the inhabitants themselves, who build their own houses and streets, consists of a design in which each familiy lives on a lot (or lote), which are all about the same size. 24 lotes form a manzana, which is organized in a rectangle of 7X5 lotes. 16 manzanas form a grupo and 25 grupos make up a sector. Everything is laid out in a neat grid and evenly spaced.
This makes addresses very easy and systematic to follow. I am, for example living at Casa Arena y Esteras. The address is:
Sector 3, Grupo 24, Manzana D, lote 10.
In addtion,certain areas in each grupo are reserved for schools, markets, recreation centres, a health center and about a thousand hectares for agricultural and industrial use. Villa also has its own police station, fire department and hospital. There was space planned and saved for a university, but some people 'invaded' that land about three years ago, and as it was an election year the municipality did not evict them.
When you look at Villa from a hilltop in the neighboring districts,you can see how neatly it is laid out in a perfect grid. Even the newer sections (Villa continues to expand all the time) follow this system. It really is very impressive
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Hoi Ammanjah,
Jouw fotostroom van Genève zet zich in Peru uiteraard onverminderd door... ;op Leuk, via je verhalen een beetje op de hoogte te worden gebracht/gehouden en je eerste impressies te lezen en te zien! Hope you'll keep on enjoying the neat grid..!
Groetjes,
heidi
Jou verhaal is mooi en leerzaam.Ik weet nu meer over Peru als ooit te voren.
Groeten Pietje.
ammanjah: this is the spanish way of organizing cities... all peruvian cities are organized this way... so if you see a map of lima you will see that all avenues and streets form a "cuadrado" around the plaza de armas... which is the center of each city and town... (this is maybe the only logical thing the spanish did in the americas...)
hola matty!
yes, it is the spanish way, but the rest of the pueblos jovenes did not follow it. they are all poorly organized, with everyone building their houses any which spot. Villa is really unique in this sense.
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