Laguna Redonda
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The Redonda Lagoon (Spanish: Laguna Redonda) is a
lagoon A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses. Lagoons are commonly divided into ''coastal lagoons'' (or ''barrier lagoons'') a ...
located in the city of
Concepción, Chile Concepción (; originally: ''Concepción de la Madre Santísima de la Luz'', "Conception of the Blessed Mother of Light") is a city and commune in central Chile, and the geographical and demographic core of the Greater Concepción metropolitan a ...
. It covers a surface of and contains the deepest lagoon of all the city, with a depth of 19 m.


Geography

Laguna Redonda is located about of distance of the River Biobío, on the west of the hill Chepe and the northwest at of the Laguna Lo Galindo. The name "Redonda" is due to its circular shape, with an average diameter of . The Redonda lagoon is home to vast
mangrove swamps A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water. The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species. Mangroves are taxonomically diverse, as a result of convergent evolution in severa ...
consisting of four different species, with the
red mangrove Red mangrove may refer to at least three plant species: * ''Rhizophora mangle'' * ''Rhizophora mucronata'' * ''Rhizophora stylosa'' {{Short pages monitor