The Tropical Americas fountain at Disney’s Animal Kingdom is taking shape. New aerial video from bioreconstruct on Saturday, November 7, shows the concrete for the fountain and its themed walls in place at the heart of Pueblo Esperanza, while crews theme the village walls around it and keep working on the land’s play area.
Aerial video of construction in Tropical Americas. Walls are being themed in Pueblo Esperanza. Construction is in progress in the play area. Concrete for the fountain and its themed walls are in place.
— bioreconstruct (@bioreconstruct) November 7, 2026
The fountain is the centerpiece of the village. When Disney first showed the land, it described a large fountain in the center of the village where the villagers like to gather and tell stories.
What The Video Shows
From the air, the fountain is easy to pick out. A round concrete basin sits in an open stretch of dirt, with low curved walls taking shape around it and a couple of pop-up work tents beside it. There’s no water, color or decoration yet, just the shape of the thing.
The village is starting to look like a village. Several walls around the plaza already have their yellow paint, and some are cut with doorways and window openings, so you can begin to picture the streets guests will walk through. Lifts and work trucks are parked all over the site, and piles of dirt still fill the spaces between the buildings.
The video also passes over the temple for the land’s new Indiana Jones attraction. It’s still wrapped in scaffolding, but blue paint is visible on the carved face behind the poles. We got a closer look at that carved and painted temple last month.
How Pueblo Esperanza Fits Together
Tropical Americas is replacing DinoLand USA, and Disney has called it an 11-acre section of the park. Pueblo Esperanza is the village side of the land, and it will hold a working carousel built around Disney animals, a large hacienda that Disney says will be one of the biggest quick-service restaurants at Walt Disney World, and the Casita for the land’s new Encanto ride. The Indiana Jones adventure takes guests inside a Maya temple nearby.
Guests reach all of it through the entrance archway from Discovery Island. That arch got its final theming, carved birds and all, in late October, and now the village behind it is getting its color too.
Still Behind The Walls
None of this is visible from inside the park yet. The whole site sits behind construction walls, so aerial footage is the clearest look at how far along it is. Disney hasn’t announced an exact opening date for Tropical Americas, so for now the fountain, the play area and the village walls are progress to watch from above rather than places to visit.
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