Galápagos Province

Galápagos Provincia de Galápagos
Province
Province o Galápagos
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Eik-name(s):  ARCHIPIELAGO OF GALAPAGOS
Location o Galápagos Province
Cantons o Galápagos Province
Kintra	Ecuador
Creatit	18 Februar 1973
Named for	Galápagos Islands
Caipital	Puerto Baquerizo Moreno
Cantons	Leet o cantons Isabela San Cristóbal Santa Cruz
Govrenment
• Govrenor	Jorge Torres (2008-)
Area
• Province	45000 km2 (17,000 sq mi)
• Laund	8010 km2 (3,090 sq mi)
Highest elevation	1710 m (5,610 ft)
Lowest elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Population  (2006)
• Province	19,184
• Density	0.43/km2 (1.1/sq mi)
• Urban	16,317
	Galápagos wis the anerlie province measured in the 2006 census.
Time zone	UTC-6 (GALT)
Area code(s)	(0)5

Galápagos is a province o Ecuador in the kintra's Insular region, locatit approximately 1,000 km (620 mi) aff the wastren coast o the mainland. The caipital is Puerto Baquerizo Moreno.

The province admeenisters the Galápagos Islands, a group o tiny volcanic islands that sit on the equator. The Galápagos Islands hae for centuries captured the interest o fowk frae aw ower the globe acause o its unique biodiversity that wis made famous bi Charles Darwin an his theory o evolution.

It is estimatit that the islands wur formit 8 million years ago as a result o tectonic activity on the seabed. The airchipelago wis likely inhabitit lang ago: the splorer Thor Heyerdahl in 1963 reportit that he foond the Inca airchaeological steids an objects. The Galapagos Islands wur discovered bi chance on 10 Mairch 1535, when the Dominican friar Fray Tomas de Berlanga, Bishop o Panama, went tae Peru in pursuance o an order o the Spainyie monarch, Charles V, tae arbitrate in a dispute atween Francisco Pizarro an his subordinates efter the conquest o the Inca Empire. Acause o a calm an strang currents, the ship o Bishop wis draggit tae the Galapagos. In chronicling his adventur, directit frae Portoviejo Emperor Charles V on the discovery o the Galapagos Islands, Berlanga describit the bleak desert conditions in the islands an the giant tortoises that inhabitit them.

The province is dividit in three cantons, each encompassin a nummer o islands. Thay are:

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  Itabaca Channel.
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  Boats in Puerto Ayora on the Island o Santa Cruz
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  Sailboats in Puerto Ayora
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  Sailboat in the Puerto Ayora
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  Twa Deuks in Puerto Ayora on the Island o Santa Cruz, Galápagos
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  Galápagos tortoise - Chelonoidis nigra
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  Gigantic galapagos turtle on Santa Cruz
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  Gigantic galapagos turtle on the island o santa cruz
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  Gigantic galapagos turtle on the island o santa cruz
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  Grapsus grapsus
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  Tortuga Bay
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  Amblyrhynchus cristatus
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  Tortuga Bay - Amblyrhynchus cristatus
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  North Seymour Island
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  Zalophus wollebaeki
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  Iguana
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  Haund carvit turtle
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  Galapagos Coffee
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  Watter taxi on Puerto Ayora
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  Puerto Ayora at nicht
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  Santa Cruz
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  Tortuga Bay - Santa Cruz
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  North Seymour Island
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  North Seymour Island

• Provinces o Ecuador
• Cantons o Ecuador
• Galapagos Naitional Pairk

1. ↑ (in Spaingie) Censo de Población y Vivienda, Galápagos 2006 Archived 2009-09-19 at the Wayback Machine. Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos (INEC).

Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Province of Galápagos.

• Galapagos National Park Archived 2002-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Galápagos Islands xeric scrub (World Wildlife Fund)
• Galápagos geologie, wi general information on the Galápagos Islands
• INEC map o the cantons Archived 2008-11-19 at the Wayback Machine
• Parishes athin the cantons Archived 2009-06-20 at the Wayback Machine