Chile Boasts World’s Largest Swimming Pool

The San Alfonso del Mar Resort on Chile’s coast has built the world’s largest swimming pool:

Wired magazine shares some details of the massive recreational accomplishment:

… this $3.5 million, 20-acre, half-mile-long, 66 million gallon leviathan [was] recently certified by Guinness as the largest pool in the world. Located in Algarrobo, Chile, about 70 miles west of Santiago and just yards from the Pacific, the pool at the San Alfonso del Mar condo complex handles water treatment like a surgical strike. While most pools filter all the water several times a day, the San Alfonso’s 150 in-wall sensors focus the cleanup only on the dirty bits.

Chile seems to be building things bigger and bigger these days. Last year it was announced that they were constructing the tallest building in South America

Posted October 29th, 2007 in In the News.

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