Acuario Inbursa
Date opened | 2014 |
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Location | Mexico City |
Coordinates | 19°26′24″N 99°12′18″W / 19.4401°N 99.2049°WCoordinates: 19°26′24″N 99°12′18″W / 19.4401°N 99.2049°W |
Floor space | 3500 square meters |
No. of animals | 3000 |
No. of species | 230 |
Total volume of tanks | 1.6 million liters |
Owner | Carlos Slim |
Management | |
Website | www |
The Acuario Inbursa is an aquarium in the Nuevo Polanco area of Miguel Hidalgo district, Mexico City.
It is the largest in Mexico with 3500 square meters of exhibition space and 1.6 million liters of ocean water. The project of billionaire Carlos Slim, it cost 250 million Mexican pesos, or 19 million US dollars, to build. It opened in June 2014 with 3000 animals of 230 different species, with plans by the end of the year to have 10,000 animals of over 300 species.
The building has 5 stories of which 4 are underground.[1] Some Mexican press articles claim the aquarium as the largest in Latin America,[2] however the Dominican Republic's National Aquarium is much larger at 34,500m².
References[]
- ^ "Especial Acuario Inbursa El Mar Chilango". 31 May 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
- ^ "Visita al Acuario Inbursa, Es el más grande de Latinoamérica". www.chilango.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2014-05-31. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
External links[]
- Media related to Acuario Inbursa at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Aquaria in Mexico
- Landmarks in Mexico City
- Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City
- Museums in Mexico City