About Us
Ricardo Gil Mendoza - Aqua Riko
Aqua Riko was born initially as Inversiones Agua-Riego, a company founded in 1996 to supply, project, install and maintain irrigation systems in Venezuela, in the ornamental and agricultural field, with a great sense of responsibility, respect for people and the environment, seeks to satisfy its customers, providing them with guaranteed cutting edge technology to meet the water needs of their plants in quantity and frequency, at the best price in the market.
Ricardo Gil, founder of the company, has been dedicated for almost two decades to developing irrigation systems for ornamental areas, gardens, squares, sports fields, monuments, highways, avenues, planters and plant walls, all with a landscape vision that reflects his passion for the plant world that has been present in his life since an early age.
Working with notable landscape designers, he discovered balance, harmony, aesthetics, his dependence on technical aspects, and customer satisfaction? At the beginning of the century, he was invited to give lectures to students of different courses at the Faculty of Architecture of the UCV (Universidad Central de Venezuela). In 2003 he collaborated as a professor in the Course of Expansion of Knowledge of the Master in Landscape Architecture and participated as a listener of the other lectures. From this time on, he began to get involved with greater interest in landscaping, he made practices in ornamental agriculture and bought his «little land El Arajuan», where he sows his garden and reproduces plants.
He began to carry out complete landscaping works, involving himself in an integral vision of the gardens, hiring different landscapers… each time with greater challenges. In 2008 he participated in the construction of the vertical gardens of the Galpones de Arte, in Los Chorros, with the irrigation system and certain ideas.
I n 2012 he was asked to build two these were followed by new orders of 38 SqF. , 57SqF. , a monument to the Virgin of the Valley, another two on the exterior Carolina with 400 SqF and Roca Loft 820 SqF. and The experience in Irrigation and Organic Cultivation have been two fundamental elements in all his works.
Since then he has collaborated with relevant companies in irrigation systems and landscape installation with the highest quality standards.