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Caldera

Caldera

Chile, Chile

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About Caldera

The mainland Chilean coast offers exceptional diving in the plankton-rich waters of the Humboldt Current. Chileans tend to look outside their country when thinking about diving, towards Brazil or the Caribbean. However, there are places along the interminable Chilean coast which are very good for diving. From Puerto Montt in the South, up to Arica in the North, we have a coastline that measures 3100 km (1,937 mi), but of course, the best zone extends from La Serena to Arica due to the temperature of its waters. Of all the beaches on the North Coast perhaps the best one is Caldera, due to its almost tropical microclimate. El Morro is a peninsula opposite the beautiful Playa Blanca on Bahia Ingles,Playa Blanca is 5km from Caldera, Atacama Discovery offers day or overnite dive trips to El Morro, on the trip out to the dive site you can see penguins and sealsand many types of birdlife, at the dive site there is abundant marine life. In the same area you can shore dive on wrecks from the 1800,s On land at El Morro there is an archealogical national park where you can see whale skeletons and shark teeth 3 inches long.

Caldera Dive Info

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Deep, Rock, Shark, Reef, Night, Wall, Drift, Wreck

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