San Alfonso del Mar Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:06:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg San Alfonso del Mar Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 The Biggest Swimming Pool In The World https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/05/31/3-biggest-swimming-pool-world/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/05/31/3-biggest-swimming-pool-world/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:00:45 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=6627 What’s more than one kilometre long, covers 7.7 hectares, holds 250 million litres of water, is as deep as 35 metres and is a beautiful turquoise colour?

It’s the biggest swimming pool in the world.

In case it’s hard to imagine just how much water that is, imagine a huge lagoon the size of 6,000 regular-sized pools. It’s a whopping 12 football fields long.

Located beside the ocean at a resort named San Alfonso del Mar in Algarrobo, Chile, it holds the Guinness record as the world’s largest swimming pool.

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