Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Largest Aquarium in Latin America Opens in Mexico City

Mexican magnate Carlos Slim on Friday inaugurated a four-level, underground aquarium that is the biggest in Latin America, housing 3,000 animals belonging to 230 species.

The first visitors took an elevator underground to start the tour of the 400,000-gallon glass tank where blue, yellow, orange and green fish swam among sharks and manta rays.

In another floor there are several types of jellyfish and a separate massive fish tank houses piranhas, crocodiles and tiny turtles. There is also a small lagoon where visitors can touch a manta ray.

Inbursa Aquarium director Alejandro Nasta says the water . . .

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