Guia Hill Municipal Park

#bucketlistreboot Guia Hill Municipal Park is located on Guia Hill, the highest hill in Macao Peninsula, and the surrounding environment and facilities of the hill have been taken into the overall design and layout to create a multipurpose park. It offers visitors the most panoramic and scenic view of the city’s urban districts and outlying islands. The park is the “green lung” in the urban landscape of Macao Peninsula. Since the term of office of Governor Tomás de Sousa Rosa (1883-1886) during the Portuguese administration in Macao, a series of greening projects had been conducted to plant pine trees of South China origin on Guia Hill, and hence its name in Chinese, “Pine Hill”. From an ecological perspective, Guia Hill has a natural wood area of high biodiversity and good vegetation succession. The park is one of the public parks in the city with the biggest communities of old trees, as it is home to eight of Macao’s oldest Chinese Red Pine trees (Pinus massoniana), while a number of Lofty Fig (Ficus altissima) and Camphor Tree (Cinnamomum camphora) inside the park have a diameter of over one metre at breast height (diameter of tree trunk measured at 1.3 metres above ground).