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La presa “El Rejon” is one of the two dams in Chihuahua City. It was finished in 1965 over a river named “El Rejon”. It is located in the west part of the city near Fashion Mall. It has a height of 33 meters and a capacity to hold 6.6 million of m3.

People go and exercise there. This persons run, walk and some others take their own bicycle and go around the dam. The dam bas a track of 6.5 KM. There are more activities like riding the zip-line that goes from one side of the dam to another side where it go above the water. There is a rental service of bicycles with a low price, for you to go explore the surroundings. Down by the side there’s a place that, for a low price, lend you a little boat to sail in the dam. The dam contains fish that can be legally fish. It is not permitted to swim without proper gear. There is an statue of a family in KM 1 where you can see the nightlife of Chihuahua and all the dam. It has a barbecue area with grills that are free to the people. Families go and spend time together, there are playgrounds for the little kids and exercise machines for the grown ups. The dam is place for different kinds of events some times of the year one example being “El Festival Internacional de Cine de Chihuahua”.

There is a time in the year when it rains a lot in Chihuahua so the water level of the dam rises and sometimes has more water from what it can retain and floods part of the green areas that it has Families usually go on Sunday’ morning. Kids can feed the ducks that swim around.