In the time of Nezahualcóyotl, Chapultepec Forest was home to the country’s first Botanical Garden, created through collections of exotic plants brought from other states of the Republic.

It was inaugurated in 2006, built on a 5.3-hectare site, and offers visitors a magnificent landscape and a valuable collection of native and introduced plants. It also features an Orchidarium.

Since 2016, the Botanical Garden has been restored by Plantando con Causa A.C. With the help of landscapers, botanists, horticulturists, and biologists, it has restored 22 areas that can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Since 2017, the garden has featured more than 300 plant varieties, distributed as follows: plants for pollinators, edible plants, succulents, wetland plants, 14 species of wild dahlias, agaves, cacti, an arboretum, among others.