Acuario de Almunecar

The visit to the aquarium gives a adventure through the surroundings and marine fauna of the Mediterranean, and particularly, the Almunecar coast. It additionally has 18 aquariums and the remarkable oceanarium with 1,000,000 litres of water, over a 17-metre-long panoramic tunnel. Inside the installation are, approximately, 3000 specimens belonging to 270 distinct species. Highlights include, amongst others, the surprising grey and bull sharks, the sea horses and the jellyfish. The Almunecar aquarium is a point of reference for tourists and site visitors from Almunecar, as it is the biggest and most modern-day one in Andalusia.

Aquarium is a vivarium of any size having at the least one obvious aspect in which aquatic plant life or animals are stored and displayed. Fishkeepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, aquatic reptiles which includes turtles, and aquatic vegetation. The time period "aquarium", coined by way of English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse, combines the Latin root aqua, which means water, with the suffix -arium, that means "a place for regarding".