Montemar Institute of Marine Biology

On August 28, 1941 the rector of the University of Chile decreed the foundation of the Institute and professor Parmenio Yáñez as its first director. The building's design and construction was done taking into consideration the presence of local fishermen in order to preserve the area's previous use, and to establish a working collaboration between the fishermen and the scientific research done at the station. After the founding of the Universidad de Valparaíso, the Institute's building became home to that university's Faculty of Ocean Sciences. ==References==