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At the time of its completion in 2006, it was in the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest pool in the world by area. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The pool is 1,013 m (3,323 ft) long, [ 4 ] covering 8.2 ha (20 acres), [ 4 ] containing some 250 million litres (66 million US gallons) [ 5 ] of seawater, with a maximum depth of 3.5 m (11.5 ft). [ 6 ]
Fernando Fischmann was born in Santiago.He attended the Grange School in Santiago [3] and then the University of Chile, earning a graduate degree in biochemistry. [4] In 1986, Fischmann bought 60 hectares of land at the port of Algarrobo, on the coast of central Chile, with the plan to develop a holiday resort, that is now known as San Alfonso del Mar, built around an artificial crystalline ...
The San Alfonso del Mar resort, located north of the city, is home to the world's largest outdoor pool. [ 5 ] Islote Pájaros Niños is a nature sanctuary on a rocky islet close to the shore, which is home to colonies of Humboldt penguins , Peruvian pelicans , and Guanay cormorants .
His fifth novel, El pintor de almas (2019), set in the mired by social conflict early 20th-century Barcelona, follows the life of an artist and his uneasy relation with an anarchist. [ 6 ] In 2015, Ildefonso Falcones was accused of defrauding the Spanish Treasury of 1,4 million euros between 2009 and 2011 by transferring the copyrights of his ...
Cathedral of the Sea (Spanish: La catedral del mar) is a 2006 historical novel by Spanish author Ildefonso Falcones.The action takes place in 14th century Barcelona at the height of the city's trade and military power in the Mediterranean, during the construction of Santa Maria del Mar serving as background to the story.
SF Masterworks is a series of science fiction novel reprints published by UK-based company Orion Publishing Group, a subsidiary of Hachette UK.The series is intended for the United Kingdom and Australian markets, but many editions are distributed to the United States and Canada by Hachette Book Group.
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Title page illustration of the "Z" manuscript, with the coat of arms of Castile and León and the Royal Bend of Castile of Alfonso XI.. The Libro del Conosçimiento de todos los rregnos or Book of Knowledge of All Kingdoms, also known as the Book of All Kingdoms, is an anonymous 14th-century Castilian geographical and armorial manual (dated to c. 1385).