The Aquarium of the park Explores in the city of Colombia Medellin today opened its doors with a capacity of 580 thousand liters of water, which makes it one of the biggest of South America.

The park explores houses near 4 thousand agencies and 400 of the species more representative of ecosystems Colombians and marine life.

Conceived as a structure that could lead to the spectators to “walking” by the water fund, is of river or sea, the aquarium has 14 tanks of freshwater, nine of sea and a pond enormous, “The Jungle Flooded”, of 4.97 meters wide, 7.67 meters high and 16.5 centimeters thick, with a weighing approximately 8 tons.

There may see close marine animals such as the Pirarucú, a fish Amazonian that can be measured four meters and weigh 300 kilos; the Arawana, that you can jump out of the water up to two meters for hunting insects, and the corals, the only living beings visible from space.