Valencia Bioparc

Bioparc Valencia is a 10-hectare (25-acre) zoo park in Valencia, Spain.^[2] The zoo is owned by the City Council of Valencia and designed and managed by Rainforest (a private Spanish company devoted to building and managing zoos). It has a large collection of African fauna.^[3]

Valencia Bioparc
39.478°N 0.407°W / 39.478; -0.407
Date opened	2008
Location	Valencia, Spain
Land area	10 ha (25 acres)
No. of animals	4,000[1]
No. of species	200[1]
Annual visitors	1.5 million[1]
Website	www.bioparcvalencia.es

Located in Valencia's Turia riverbed, most of the animals moved to the new Bioparc facilities from the old city's zoo when the park opened in 2008.^[4]

The concept of the zoo, called Zooimersion in Spanish, consists of immersing visitors into the animals' habitat and not vice versa. This is achieved by not using the traditional railings and cages that are common in many zoos, using instead rivers, ponds, streams and rocks to separate visitors from the animals.^[5] Also, great care has been taken in reproducing the eco-systems, including an important collection of African flora.^[2][5][6]

The zoo is the birthplace of Makena, the first elephant born in the Valencian Community.^[7]

Exhibits

As of 2022:^[8]

Sabana

• Aardvark
• Abdim's stork
• African bush elephant
• African pygmy mouse
• African rock python
• African sacred ibis
• Ball python
• Banded mongoose
• Blesbok
• Bush stone-curlew
• Cairo spiny mouse
• Cape porcupine
• Cape teal
• Common dwarf mongoose
• Common ostrich
• Common warthog
• Crested guineafowl
• Gambian pouched rat
• Golden-breasted starling
• Grant's zebra
• Grey crowned crane
• Impala
• Kirk's dik-dik
• Klipspringer
• Lion
• Marabou stork
• Meerkat
• Mhorr gazelle
• Naked mole-rat
• Purple starling
• Rock hyrax
• Rothschild's giraffe
• Saddle-billed stork
• Southern white rhinoceros
• Speckled pigeon
• Spotted hyena
• Superb starling
• Thomson's gazelle
• Waterbuck
• White-cheeked turaco

Selva Ecuatorial

• African black duck
• African forest buffalo
• Black crowned crane
• Chimpanzee
• De Brazza's monkey
• Drill
• Dumeril's boa
• Dwarf crocodile
• Eastern bongo
• Emperor scorpion
• Gabon talapoin
• Leopard
• Leopard tortoise
• Madagascar day gecko
• Madagascar hissing cockroach
• Panther chameleon
• Pygmy hippopotamus
• Red forest duiker
• Red river hog
• Sitatunga
• Spotted-necked otter
• Western lowland gorilla
• White-naped mangabey

Humedales

• African spoonbill
• Golden mantella
• Hippopotamus
• Nile crocodile
• Pink-backed pelican

Madagascar

• Black-and-white ruffed lemur
• Fossa
• Great white pelican
• Greater flamingo
• Mongoose lemur
• Red-bellied lemur
• Red-fronted lemur
• Red ruffed lemur
• Ring-tailed lemur

Gallery

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  Bridge entrance.
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  Natural settings for the habitats.
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  A lion resting.
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  Elephants with a baby.
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  Flamingos habitat.
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  Rhinoceros running.
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  Lemur in public.
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  Rothschild Giraffe.
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  Saddle-billed stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis).
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  Gorilla

References

1. "A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning Your Visit to Bioparc Valencia". Headout Inc.
2. "Step right into the heart of Africa in Valencia's Bioparc". Reality Sense. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
3. "Fuengirola Zoo cambia su nombre" (PDF) (in Spanish). Rainforest. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
4. "Abre el Bioparc" (in Spanish). Valencia: El Mercantil Valenciano. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
5. Velert, Sara. "Valencia abre un zoo sin rejas ni jaulas". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
6. "¿Qué es Bioparc Valencia?" (in Spanish). Bioparc Valencia. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
7. NTC, À Punt (2022-11-09). "Naix el primer elefant "valencià" del Bioparc". À Punt (in Catalan). Retrieved 2023-06-15.
8. "Habitats - BIOPARC VALENCIA" (in Spanish).

External links

• Official website