Centro de Investigación Marina

Museums

The Research Marine center (CIMAR) is an active center, where activities are carried out to know a way so close and yet so unknown as the marine environment, its biodiversity and its environment; to teach how to use its resources responsibly and help to protect this fragile ecosystem, contributing to their rational use and management. The center, which is the result of an agreement between the City of Santa Pola and Alicante University, began working in 2005, adapting the structure of a former police barracks built in the 20s (headquarters of the Torre d'Enmig), with a privileged location at the foot of the coral reef fossil of Santa Pola and a few meters from the coast. Facilities: The CIMAR has facilities fit out for the investigation, as laboratories; for the teaching, with the classroom of practices; and for the development of cultural activities, with the conferences classroom and the exhibitions room. Besides, the centre is endowed with the necessary infrastructure for the sea work and to receive long stays in the center. Also has a sismic station inside the Spanish Network of Seismic Control.