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San Alfonso del Mar has the largest swimming pool

The Chilean lagoon stretches 1,013 metres along the Pacific coast The pool at Algarrobo covers about 8 hectares, holds roughly 250,000 cubic metres of seawater and runs for just over a kilometre, making it the largest by area and volume. Water is drawn from the Pacific, filtered and returned warmer than it arrived. Its scale lets guests kayak and sail small boats rather than simply swim. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The Chilean lagoon stretches 1,013 metres along the Pacific coast. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.