GALÁPAGOS THE ENCHANTED ISLANDS
Updated: Jun 26
By Juan Francisco Carrasco
The Galápagos archipelago, located in the Pacific Ocean at the level of the equator, has an area of 7,970 square kilometers and is made up of more than 233 islands, islets and rocks that were created from many submarine volcanic eruptions a few million years ago.
After many years of evolution, Galápagos has become a unique ecosystem. The main attraction of the islands is the great variety of native and endemic reptiles, birds, fish, and mammals that inhabit only this place in the world. Thousands of tourists visit the islands to admire the natural habitat of some animals such as blue and red-footed boobies, albatrosses, marine and land iguanas, penguins, sea lions, hammerhead sharks, and giant land tortoises.
