Since 1905 up to now, you can watch a statue of the well-deserving of the country, Benito Juárez, and in some occasions the site is used for diverse events organized by the State’s Government.

It is located on Circuito Baluartes, right in front of Puerta de Tierra, (Land Door) between Calle 55 and Avenida República in Campeche City.

It was the first public walk in Campeche City. The political chief and military major of the plaza Don Francisco de Paula Toro ordered to build the walk, on February 15^th 1830, and Engineers' lieutenant Juan Estrada was responsible of the project.

According to the legend, the Puente de los Perros (The Dogs Bridge) was built in honor of his wife, Mercedes López de Santa Ana de Paula Toro, because she liked to stroll through the walk, and it seems, that the dog’s sculptures placed at the end of the bridge, represent "Aníbal" and "Alexander", her pets.

When the public walk was inaugurated, it had at the center an arbor, and there was a statue of an Indian girl all carved in wood and plaster, her head was crowned with feathers and she had a bow and a quiver holding arrows, the statue was called India Mosquita (Mosquita Indian girl); afterwards, the statue was replaced by a petroleum lamp to increase the illumination of the walk and on 1905 the lamp was replaced by the actual statue of the well-deserving of the country Benito Juárez.

It is 2 blocks long divided into three fairly wide streets, it starts right immediately from the Puerta de Tierra’s exit and it ends in the Puente de los Perros. It consists of a stoned floor plaza surrounded by a fence of inverted arches and pyramidal ends over the edges, forming benches on the inner side of the fence.

The front and rear accesses are flanked by enormous stone vessels sculpted with sea shells; on the center there are column pedestals which support some other similar vessels.

On the center, there is some kind of arbor where the copper statue of Benito Juárez rises. On the side streets there are several double seat masonry benches sharing the back of the seat and facing to the opposite way. There are 28 of these on each side, plus the ones on the arbor and on the ends.

Dividing these two rows of benches, there is a trellis landscaped by oak trees and flamboyan trees forming a grove. The Puente de las Mercedes (Mercedes’ bridge) o Puente de los Perros (Dogs bridge) crosses over the drainage cannel of Santa Ana district.