Acuarium of Roquetas

The Aquarium of Roquetas de Mar belongs to a private company and is the largest aquarium in Andalusia, with 2 million liters of water and more than a thousand marine specimens.

The aquarium is divided into zones, in what they call the Water Cycle, an educational journey through the different habitats of marine animals.

• The first area is the birth of water, the rivers. In this area there are freshwater fish, in a representation of what would be the Amazon river, where species such as piranhas and other fish from Brazil, Peru and Colombia stand out.
• The second zone is the tropical sea. In this recreation of a coral reef we can observe the fish with the most colorful colors of the Aquarium, like the clownfish.
• The third area is the oceans. This room has the largest volume tank of the aquarium, with 1,000,000 liters of water, and also the largest fish, such as sharks, which can be seen from all angles through a semi-tunnel gallery that Immerse in the fish tank.
• The last room is dedicated to the Mediterranean Sea and its species. We will be able to observe the marine bottoms of Posidonia meadows with all the animal diversity they contain and the rocky bottoms. The species found here are typical of our sea, horse mackerel, bream, bream, moray eels and groupers, to name a few..

The aquarium of Roquetas offers several services such as guided educational visits, for groups and schoolchildren, or even the possibility of bathing with the sharks and diving inside their tank, always with previously arranged visit at 950160036.

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