Parque da Mônica, São Paulo

The Parque da Mônica is a theme park based the characters created by the Brazilian cartoonist Maurício de Sousa. The first park had been designed by Maurício in 1993 at Shopping Eldorado in São Paulo, having operated until February 2010 when it definitively ended its activities due to contractual problems with the mall's administrators and debts. Since then, Maurício has been in negotiations to reopen it in another location. A new park opened at Shopping SP Market on July 4, 2015, at the location of the extinct O Mundo da Xuxa. In 17 years of activities, until 2010, the park received more than 9 million visitors. ()