Aquarium Finisterrae
Aquarium entrance
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| Date opened | June 5, 1999 |
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| Location | A Coruña, Galicia, Spain |
| Coordinates | 43°23′02″N 8°24′35″W / 43.3840°N 8.4098°WCoordinates: 43°23′02″N 8°24′35″W / 43.3840°N 8.4098°W |
| No. of species | >600 |
| Volume of largest tank | 4,400,000 litres (1,200,000 US gal) |
| Website | mc2coruna |
Aquarium Finisterrae (Aquarium of the end of the World) is an aquarium located in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. It is an interactive centre of the sciences of marine biology, oceanography and the sea in general. It tries to promote learning about the ocean and to teach people to be more caring toward marine life.
Created by the City of A Coruña, it was inaugurated June 5, 1999. It is directed, like the other museums in A Coruña by Ramón Núñez Centella, and its objective is to educate people about the sea, paying special attention to the ecosystems of the Galician coast. Its technical director is Francisco Franco del Amo.
It is located on the coast of A Coruña, in the Maritime Pass, between the Casa del Hombre and the Tower of Hercules. Its exterior pools are connected to the Atlantic Ocean and are designed to show the tides.
Besides its pools and aquariums, it has elements of a museum and allows experiences like touching star fish and turbots and learning where king prawn live.
The largest of the aquariums is the Atlantic Ocean exposition room. Each of the modules has a question as its title which was selected by the readers of the newspaper La Voz de Galicia before the aquarium's inauguration.
Between the interactive modules, there is the Charca de las caricias (Stroking pool), where visitors can touch some of the marine life. There are also modules dedicated to nautical knots, fish smells, parrot songs and the amount of water that can be soaked up by a sponge.
There are various modules that are not interactive, like the tank of jellyfish, the small exposition of marine fossils, and the aquarium of sea horses. The most important is the circular tank at the entrance of the room, dedicated to the presentation of a particular animal. The animals presented change every so often.
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