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In 2024, the ABS-CBN Foundation announced that it was returning management of the park to the MWSS on
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Among the activities in the park are hiking, mountain-biking, horseback riding, rappelling, zip-lining, fishing, and paddle-boating in the lagoon. The park also has an "Ecotrail" and an
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After years of neglect, the park underwent a renovation starting in 1999 under the "Save La Mesa
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was raised for the rehabilitation of the park. It was reopened on April 28, 2004 and was renamed as "La Mesa
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Covering an area of 33 hectares (82 acres) the public park is located along the natural boundary of the
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The park also hosts a swimming complex which opened in 2011. The previous one was destroyed by
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who in 1999 established Bantay
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