They consist of:
Facilities at the Center
- Individual tanks for the maintenance of turtles made of plastic and fiberglass. It has total water volume capacity up to 30,000 liters and allows keeping the animals in quarantine alter its admission to the center, thus preventing the spread of diseases among patients and potential aggressions between them.
- Liner pool easy to assemble and 5 meters in diameter that allows the first intensive cares and it’s used for cetaceans monitoring as they reach the Rehabilitation Center. Its shallow depth (1.5 meters) allows the technician team being in the water to hold the animal so that the animal signs can be monitored. This facilitates the handling of the dolphin at the time of making a complete physical examination, draw blood or administer the necessary treatments.
- Exercise pool for cetaceans and sea turtles that has a water capacity of 100,000 liters and it’s used, as its name indicates, for both cetaceans and turtles that need a time for recovering to perform the exercise before being released back to the sea. In the case of cetaceans is also used to assess whether the animal can swim in the right way and with good coordination of movements. It has a double fabric wall (liner) to prevent animals from being injured by striking against the wall, and a sunscreen. It also has a closed circuit connected to a water filtration system that keeps the water clean.
- Aviarian set up by a set of individual cages covered with shading clothes that can accommodate up to 10 birds at once. It has an area with high grass and an artificial wetland with salt water that the birds can use to exercise their thighs and carry out their daily groom. Furthermore, it is located in an area with very little traffic to minimize the stress that these sensitive animals may be subjected.
- Greenhouse used during the winter months to protect the individual's external tank. This is necessary because the turtles (like other reptiles) depend on the ambient temperature to control their body temperature. Therefore, they need water temperatures of over 15-16 ° C to keep active their metabolism and to absorb the treatments effectively.
During the turtle’s stay in the rehabilitation center in winter, those temperatures are achieved by artificial heating and water heaters installed inside the greenhouse. Once summer arrives, the glass walls are removed, and, on the roof its placed a shading cloth to prevent the excessive arise of the tanks temperatures.
- Store and food preparation room where there are the freezers for fish and shellfish storage that are part of the staple diet of the animals in rehabilitation. The food is defrosted for 24 hours in the fridge, and must be as varied as possible to avoid possible imbalances of vitamins or minerals.
- Operating / treatment room entirely provided for the physical examination and treatment of marine animals. Within its facilities there are:
1. Examination / surgery bureau
2. Focal cold light to illuminate the surgical field or area to explore.
3. Infrared light to increase the temperature of animals in shock or in recovering from anesthesia.
4. Surgery material and autoclave to sterilize it before any surgery.
5. Doppler device, the only power that allows feeling the heartbeat of a sea turtle. It is used in the case of comatose turtles and to monitor turtle recovering from anesthesia.
6. Inhalation anesthesia device with different circuits depending on the animal’s size, from 100 grams bird to 100 kilos turtle.
7. All types of serum for both oral and parenteral rehydration.
8. Sea turtles recovery tank so that the weak animals can remain semi-dry. It is equipped with a waterproof mattress that ensures the animal comfort and a system for water continuous infusion system through a closed circuit. This prevents choking if the animal is unable to lift his head to breathe but a constant shower of warm water its maintained to keep their scales wet.
9. Cures and medicines material used for the treatment of marine animals allowed in the center.
10. Rigid endoscope for diagnosis in order to make a direct visualization of the organ’s mucosa that makes up the upper gastrointestinal tract (esophagus and stomach) to be able to discover abnormalities in situ. And, if it’s necessary, to take samples of diseased tissue and submit it to the pathology study or remove foreign bodies such as hooks.
- Clinical Laboratory with the necessary equipment to perform basic diagnostic tests on specimens logged in:
1. The microscope is used to do blood tests (hematology), stool samples (parasite, blood in stool) and cytology samples taken by the veterinarian team (to see the type of cells in a lesion or detect the presence of bacteria)
2. The magnifying glass is used, for example, to identify larger parasites, or to analyze the structure of the feathers of a seabird with waterproofing problems.
3. There is also a biochemical machine to perform analysis as protein’s concentration or electrolytes in the blood. This can determine whether an animal is dehydrated, malnourished or has problems in different vital organs.
4. The centrifuge is vital in order to separate serum and plasma from blood due to perform biochemical tests and measure hematocrit values.
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- Water laboratory where you can different tests as pH, nitrates and nitrites, ammonia and chlorine and salinity levels of the water used for the maintainance of the animals.
- Education classroom with the aim to give lectures and conferences. It has a capacity for twenty-five persons and its equipped with computer, slide projector, canon projector and transparencies projector.
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 Center view
 Pool for the first assistance to dolphins
 Exercise pool
 Aviarium
 The operating room during a surgery intervention
 The operating room during an endoscopy
 The room with the declining causes exhibition
 Educational material
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