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The attractions, costing an estimated $600,000, opened in time for the twoweek Mexican school vacation ending March 30. After that, the beaches operate weekends until summer, when they fully reopen.
Yet for Chavez, it was the closest she had come to a beach. "I've never been," she said. "I'd like to, but right now we can't."
college students at resort hot spots such as Acapulco and Cancun, the Mexico City government has offered a consolation prize for residents too poor to get away: fake beaches.
Across the street begins sprawling Nezahualcoyotl, a neighboring municipality whose residents can also use the beach though they live outside the capital.
"With my pay, I could never take them to Acapulco," he said. "There are a lot of people who can't take their families anywhere. With this, we have a place to bring our children and let them have fun."
The artificial beaches, in their second year, have drawn ridicule from critics of the leftist mayor, Marcelo Ebrard, and concern from some tourism officials that the city may be missing a chance to draw visitors to more established attractions.
At the center of the recreation area was a 100footwide inflatable pool and water slide, surrounded by smaller kiddie pools, a playground and a karaoke tent, where a group of teenage girls belted out a Spanish version of "Time Warp." Children buried one another in fine, khakitoned sand that had been dumped and smoothed into four separate "beaches."
Built on a former trash dump next to Mexico City's airport, the park, with its inflatable pool, sits amid a graffitispattered district of bare block houses, salvage yards and car repair shops.
Her husband, 30yearold Israel Prado, said he went to Acapulco once as a teenager. But that was the last time.
The boys, 7 and 8, dug in the imported sand with plastic cups. The couple relaxed on plastic chairs along a patch of palmstudded beach roughly the size of what a small seaside hotel might offer.
The gleeful screech of children playing in the pools regularly gave way to the roar of airplanes overhead. A dry wind no sea breeze carried dust and noise from a nearby road project.
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Veronica Chavez, a 29yearold homemaker, was among 3,400 people who visited this beach the other day, along with her husband, who drives a taxi, and their two sons.
"It's summertime in the middle of the Federal District," said Sabino Deloya Cortes, who runs a public park on the edge of the city that is home to the largest of the artificial beaches. "It's for families who can't go to Acapulco, who can't go to Cancun."
In a city where rich and poor live in vastly separate worlds, the beach sites were picked for their closeness to public transportation and densely settled workingclass neighborhoods. In those places, many residents get by on less than $5 a day and, unlike wealthier capitalinos, have never traveled to the Pacific Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico.
Critics have labeled the beaches, which are free, a costly gimmick, but officials say the project is already a success, with more than 70,000 visitors during the first five days despite cool temperatures and often cloudy skies. Lifeguards enforce limits on time in the pools to give everyone a chance to frolic.
Officials have created 10 artificial beach areas across the landlocked city by hauling in truckloads of sand and planting palm trees, beach chairs and umbrellas around public swimming pools.
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