The City Council promotes the recreational park 'El burrito de Mijas'

The Mijas Town Hall has launched an initiative to preserve one of the town's hallmarks: the donkey. The Council has just opened a public tender for just over 42,000 euros for the drafting of the project for what will be a recreational park named 'El burrito de Mijas'.

The idea, as Mayor Ana Mata advanced, is to promote a recreational park where the stables on the south road are currently located, where, in addition to learning more about this symbol of Mijas, the animals will have more spacious stables and areas for recreation. All this, moreover, on "a plot that will be completely integrated into the landscape," and where "it is about promoting interaction with the donkeys in semi-freedom, where they can walk around and which can be visited," according to the councilor in charge of Animal Welfare, Marco Cortés.

The objectives pursued with this action are to improve global awareness about the rights and welfare of animals, create an observatory of donkeys in semi-freedom from the Camino de las Canteras, enable walks through shaded and wooded trails, involve the Andalusian donkey in the management of the forest mass, and the preservation of the species.

The park will have an interpretation center and the space will be completed with a network of trails and recreation areas where interaction with the equines will be possible

Also, donkeys will be able to 'retire' in the park and it will be possible to host adult animals for their recovery and subsequent relocation. There will also be an Interpretation Center of the Mijeño Donkey. All this will be completed with a network of trails and recreation areas where the public can interact with the donkeys.

Features

The plot where the facility will be located has an area of 26,000 square meters. It is planned to build three large modules for the donkeys, another for veterinary uses, and the last one as a storage. The dimensions of the stables will have a useful surface that will allow the donkeys to enter, turn around, move, and lie down without difficulty inside them. In total, there are twenty-four compartments with capacity for two donkeys each, with a total capacity for 48 donkeys.

Each compartment must have a water point for a drinking trough and a light point, as well as rings on the walls to allow the tying of the specimens and thus ensure the performance of maintenance and cleaning tasks. The stables can be located at the lower or upper part of the trails, taking advantage of the natural shape of the terrain, with semi-buried rooms integrated into the landscape and vegetal cover.