HOW TO GET TO RIO AQUARIUM AND OTHER RIO DE JANEIRO AQUARIUM INFORMATION
Recently opened, AquaRio is Rio de Janeiro’s first Marine Aquarium, 100% built by private initiatives, with several ultra-modern resources and designed to promote not only visitor leisure, but also education and research.
It has an amazing 26,000 square meters of built area and 4.5 million liters of water, making it the largest marine aquarium in South America, with about 8,000 animals of 350 different species on display.
HOW TO GET TO RIO AQUARIUM, THE RIO DE JANEIRO AQUARIUM?
Our indication? get a Uber!
Address: Muhammad Ali Square – Gamboa (Wonder Harbor) – Near the Museum of Tomorrow.
HOW TO ARRIVE BY SUBWAY:
Go to Cinelândia station and then take the VLT-01 towards the bus station. Get off at Utopia Aquarius station.
Hours of Operation: Every day from 10am to 6pm (last entry allowed: 5pm).
TICKETS:
Whole: R $ 80 | R $ 60 for residents of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
Half: R $ 40 – for children from 3 to 11 years old, elderly, disabled, young people from 12 to 21 years old (Brazilians), students from Rio State (all ages), students up to 24 years old (Brazilians from other states) .
Free: Children under 6 years old and people with special needs (up to two companions).
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The Aquarium combines marine nature with sophisticated structure, interactivity and technology. The exhibition follows 28 enclosures, including underwater tunnels that simulate various marine ecosystems. You can also interact with a huge variety of fish, invertebrates, rays and sharks in the
Touch Tank!
As soon as you arrive at AquaRio you will come across your host, the Virtual Fish. You choose details such as species and color yourself, as well as a name, and Virtual Fish will accompany you throughout the tour (please note: this activity is charged separately).
Jorge Brazil photo
In the Virtual Marine Aquarium, installation composed of interactive panels, the visitor can access information about certain species with which the public cannot have contact for safety reasons and / or to avoid the stress of these animals.
Picture of Edvaldo Reis e Hudson Pontes
The AquaRio also has a Science Museum, with several exhibitions on the marine environment, adding awareness and preservation of these scientific riches.
For those who like surfing, there is also an area of the Aquarium temporarily dedicated to surfing, which is part of a traveling exhibition.
There are two attractions that are yet to be launched and are long awaited by the public. One of them is “Sleeping in the Aquarium”, which will allow visitors to sleep in one of the tunnels, which passes inside the Great Ocean Tank, and the other will be Diving in this same tank. Have you ever imagined the thrill of swimming in the middle of a shoal and other sea animals? These two activities are scheduled for the end of 2017.
