San Alfonso del Mar is a resort in
Algarrobo, Chile, also known for its world’s largest swimming pool
according to the Guinness World Records. The resort is owned by a
Chilean biochemist and businessman Fernando Fischmann, the head of
Crystal Lagoon Corporation – the company that designed the gigantic
pool. He used the patented technology to “harvest, filter and
permanently recirculate ocean water”. “This advance provides something
that until now was not technically possible – the generation of
monumental masses of water in a crystalline state to provide a beach
life environment and aquatic sports at the top level,” Fernando
Fischmann says.
The San Alfonso pool construction cost approximately 3.5 million US dollars. The size of the pool is 8 hectares in surface area which equals 6,000 standard-size 8-metre-long swimming pools. The water temperature in summer is 26C; it is 9 degrees warmer than the ocean next to it. The pool uses the water from the Pacific; it holds up to 250, 000 cube meters of water. Crystal clear water allows to see trough 35 meters of the pool depth, it’s completely transparent.
While at the San Alfonso del Mar visitors relax at white sand private beaches which have their own boat docks within an artificial tropical environment.Along with tanning there lots of other activities at San Alfonso as sailing, kayaking, scuba diving, ocean navigation, tennis, paragliding, soccer courts, volleyball courts, tennis courts, a 3D golf stimulator and a gym with view of the lagoon. The Beach Club at San Alfonso offers a tempered beach under the glass pyramid, open-air Jacuzzis, sauna, and the first medical spa in Chile.
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