San Alfonso del Mar
San Alfonso del Mar is a resort located in Algarrobo ( Chile ) directly on the Pacific coast about 100 km west of the capital Santiago . It was completed in December 2006. The facility received worldwide attention after the Guinness Book of Records awarded it the world record as the largest swimming pool.
Swimming pools and resorts
The San Alfonso swimming pool is 1013 meters long and 3.5 meters deep at the deepest point. It covers an area of 7.7 hectares and holds 250,000 m³ (250 million liters) of salt water. In order to keep the need for chemical agents low, 800,000 liters of fresh seawater from the Pacific are pumped into the basin, filtered and discharged every day. The hotels located directly at the swimming pool offer a. the opportunity for water sports such as swimming, kayaking or windsurfing.
Construction and development
The cost of building the filter system alone was estimated at 3.5 million US dollars (2.8 million euros). Estimates of the total cost of the pool facility are $ 1.1 billion to $ 2 billion to build and $ 4 million in annual maintenance costs.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Process to maintain large clean recreational water bodies - US 8790518 B2. Retrieved November 21, 2014 . With regard to the water depth of the artificial lagoon, this patent states for a cleaning process: Minimal and maximal depths were 1.2 and 3.5 meters, being 2.8 meters the average depth. (Minimum and maximum water depths are 1.2 and 3.5 meters respectively, with 2.8 meters as the average depth.)
- ↑ South America: Chile - sailing in the largest pool in the world Süddeutsche Zeitung
- ↑ BADEN: Guaranteed shark-free , Focus Online
- ↑ World's Largest Swimming Pool, San Alfonso del Mar , Explorra
- ↑ Today Pic The World's Largest , National Geographic Blogs
- ^ World's Largest Swimming Pool cost nearly Two Billion Dollars to Build. slashgear.com, January 22, 2008, accessed November 22, 2014 .
- ↑ World's largest swimming pool. odditycentral.com, March 2, 2008, accessed November 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Worlds largest swimming pool, amazing! snopes.com, August 18, 2008, accessed November 22, 2014 .
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Coordinates: 33 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 71 ° 39 ′ 12 ″ W.