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Aquarium de La Rochelle is a family-owned public aquarium in La Rochelle, France.
In 1988, during the second international aquarium congress in Monaco, the opening of the Aquarium La Rochelle was announced as being the one of the biggest French aquarium at the time.
The aquarium, then located near the marina of Les Minimes, was over 1,600 square metres with 36 aquaria whose volume total was 550,000 litres.
Within 12 years, the building welcomed seven million visitors.
The aquarium moved due to this success, and a new one was inaugurated near the Vieux-Port, in the middle of the city of La Rochelle, in 2001.
With a surface area of over 8,445 square metres, it is part of the biggest European public aquariums.
It exhibits more than 12,000 animals of 600 different species which are split into 3 million litres of seawater, including 1.5 million litres for the sharks area.
The aquarium is open every day of the year.
The tour requires at least two hours of visiting.
The tour is made for families since observation points at children's heights are provided, as well as audio guides.
To access to the rooms, visitors are invited to take elevators, so that they feel like they are going deep inside the ocean.
Atlantic room: 19 aquariums display local species of Charente-Maritime coasts and of the intertidal zone.
Mediterranean room: Composed of 12 aquariums, this room displays fishes, invertebrates and corals of Mediterranean Sea.
Oceanic area: A huge aquarium displays fauna living off the coasts of Africa.
Jellyfish area: This room is dedicated to jellyfishes from tropical and temperate waters.
Two tube-shaped aquariums allow visitors admire plankton.
Caribbean room: 5 aquariums are dedicated to species living in the Caribbean.
In a huge terrarium, a recreated mangrove can be observed.
Indo-Pacific room: 21 aquariums, including a giant one of 100 000 litres, display different species of fishes, invertebrates and corals living in the Great Barrier Reef and in the Hawaiian and Red Sea archipelagos.
Three aquariums plunged into total darkness allow visitors observe life of the night-time reef: bioluminescence, fluorescence and light absorption.
Sharks area: Different species of sharks can be observed from tiers.
Amphitheatre aquarium: This aquarium of 150 000 litres displays surgeon fishes and giant trevally fishes evolving among moray eels, a green turtle and a scale turtle which weights 60 kg.
Tropical greenhouse: Composed of the aquarium and a turtle river, the greenhouse allow visitors admire varied fauna and flora.
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