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The EcoCentro,
the first place in the country dedicated to the interpretation of the
marine ecological systems, is located in a privileged place along the
extense coast: in the city of Puerto Madryn, close to Peninsula Valdés.
In this zone, like no other for the concentration of marine fauna and
for the rustic beauty of its landscapes, nature shows us one of its most
moving spectacles.
The EcoCentro
was built over a cliff that apears to form part, like a lookout point
in a carefully chosen spot, a threshold from where one can arrive to what
we didn't know or had forgotten. The exhibition room takes you through
the Patagonian coastal ecosystem. Information, anecdotes, diagrams, drawings
which wake your curiosity and invite you to ask more questions. Here it
is possible to discover the magnitude of the ocean currents and the astounding
variety of algas, come to face with the perplexing jump of the whales,
and observe the precise differences and similarities between seals and
sea elephants, or a reproduction of Mel, one of the first orcas identified
in Peninsula Valdés. In one far end of the exhibition room, next
to a window, we see a sea pool, inhabited by small invertebrata moving
slowly, with the beauty, which cannot be reproduced, of natural events.
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