El Centro Historico
Designed as an area to attract tourists, with wide streets and open views of the sky, El Centro Histórico is a haven set apart from the organized chaos of the rest of the district. While the majority of the buildings in the neighborhood are modern, they exhibit a Spanish Colonial style with textured plascrete walls and decorative chimneys. Deliberately crafted zoning ordinances keep the buildings at ten stories or less and blend walled residential complexes with quaint commercial districts.
The neighborhood is located down Volcán Cayambe’s slopes, near the Base de Cayambe District, so it tends to see milder temperatures than the rest of Chakana. Developers sited El Centro Histórico on the edge of a tall escarpment that rises above the surrounding terrain. This puts the tops of Centro’s modestly sized buildings at roughly the same height as nearby starscrapers and arcologies, preserving the illusion of a civic center from eras past.
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