OUR
HISTORY

thanks to his passion for botany

CARLOS MURILLO DEPRAECT
He had the initiative to make a green area for the city, and that within it was a Botanical Garden, for which he donated his personal collection of plants

Botanical Garden inauguration

Due to its privileged location, during the first years it was the object of the desire of real estate developers, but civil society did not allow it

Botanical and zoological society joined

To the cause of the engineer Murillo Depraect and formally requested the government to grant the integral administration of the space

Start of the contemporary art project in the Botanical Garden of Culiacan

Presentation of the initial proposal of botanical collections

Beginning of the modernization of the Garden’s infrastructure

The architectural Master Plan was carried out by Tatiana Bilbao

It is one of the most important gardens in Mexico and the continent

It has been configured in four action axes:

1. Conservation
It promotes actions for the conservation of threatened native species
2. Investigation
It operates and manages a germplasm bank and a herbarium registered with the Index Herbariorum, which recognizes internationally the herbalists oriented to scientific research
3. Education
It promotes educational programs on botany, develops programs and spaces for artistic expression and culture. It also has a library
4. Exposición
The garden has a botanical collection of more than 1,000 species and a collection of contemporary art of 39 works