Description

Chile presents more than 4,200 kilometers of coastline, washed almost in its entirety by the Humboldt current, that brings great biodiversity, being a paradise for scubadiving.

The Chilean Pacific ocean: Chile presents more than 4,200 kilometers of coastline on the mainland and 79.650 kilometers in the southern archipelago, which they leave for tropical waters and end up in Antarctic waters Washed almost in its entirety by the Humboldt current, which brings cold and rich in nutrients, water filling of the more diverse agencies the waters of our country.
On the shores of Chile the percentage of endemism is very high, which creates a paradise for the scuba diving, finding representatives of all the animal kingdom, large tracts of forests of macro algae, and a spectacular underwater geography in which it emphasizes the cliffs and caveswhere every inch of this colonized by any living organism.

It has coasts Island unique in the world, with high endemism underwater, two examples of this, are the archipelago of Juan Fernández, and a piece of the Polynesia, Rapa-Nui or Easter Island, these places as well as being unique and exotic, they are spectacular conditions for the practice of diving, for the clarity of its waters and its rich biodiversity. The great present on the shores of Chile biodiversity begins to observe in the coastline, where it is possible to recognize a variety of species, both marine and those living associated with these ecosystems. It is this amount of life which welcomed the arrival of the first gatherers- hunters, which found livelihoods here to live. Our coasts have been part of the evolution, and all human processes that have happened to the present day.

Carlos from Centro de Buceo Pichidangui