Galapagos Islands History The Galapagos Islands have a wide history that includes pirates, whalers, and hunters of seals and also love and mystery (it looks for the history of the island Floreana, and read the book Floreana of Margaret Wittmer). Like it has happened with almost all the greatness in the world, the discovery of the archipelago was an accident that it happened while Thomas de Berlanga, bishop from Panama,...... Similar Editorial : Galapagos Islands Wildlife by Eric Castro. | Source : South America Holidays
Geography And Geology Of The Galapagos Islands The Galapagos archipelago is located about 1000 kilometers to the west of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean. It is formed by 13 main islands: Darwin, Wolf, Pinto, Marchena, Genovesa, Fernandina, Isabela, Santiago, Baltra, Santa Cruz, San Cristóbal, Floreana, as well as countless islands (that here are not mentioned). The islands cover a total area of 7,882 square kilometers. The same as many oceanic...... Similar Editorial : The Exotic Galapagos Islands by Eduardo Landazuri. | Source : South America Vacation
Marine Life In The Galapagos Islands The Galapagos Islands are one of the natural complexes most diverse of the world. Great quantity of formations of life as well as of representative species they are located here. In the Galapagos Islands there are recognized 333 species different species of alga (35% of which are endemic). During El Niño Current others that grow better in tropical waters replaced many of the algae. This event...... Similar Editorial : The Exotic Galapagos Islands by Eduardo Landazuri. | Source : South America Vacation
Galapagos Islands Wildlife In the Galapagos Islands it can be defined several areas of vegetation according to the increase of the elevation, the type and readiness of water and variable characteristics of the soils.Coast: It is along the beaches, lagoons of salted water and low and uneven stony banks, where the vegetation is influenced by the presence of salt. The predominant plants are small trees, bushes and tolerant...... Similar Editorial : The Exotic Galapagos Islands by Eduardo Landazuri. | Source : South America Vacation
The Origin Of The Galapagos Islands The Galapagos Islands rise in the Platform Tortoises, a basaltic submarine plateau located between 360 and 900 meters under the surface of the ocean. It is an entirely volcanic archipelago, and only the Isabela islands formed by 6 side volcanos to side, of those which five are active. The Galapagos Islands are classified as a "hot spot" that is an area of high thermal flow and of an intense...... Similar Editorial : The Exotic Galapagos Islands by Eduardo Landazuri. | Source : South America Vacation
Galapagos Islands Diving Tips The best way to come closer to the animals of the Galapagos, is by means of soft movements, or without moving when you have them in front, and not to make bubbles. If you move to come closer, a turtle that rests, a shark that happens and even a gigantic whale, they will get scared. The only submarine animals that won't be terrified of your presence (if you find them) they are the murderous whales...... Similar Editorial : Galapagos Islands Weather by Eric Castro. | Source : South America Vacation
Galapagos Islands The Best 4 Months in Galapagos islands. There are only four months of the year that can be called transitional months: December, January, April and May. These months are worth calling “Satisfaction guaranteed”.... Similar Editorial : Galapagos Islands Cruises Trips by Eric Castro. | Source : South America Vacation
Searching For The Hammer Shark In Galapagos With acoustic radars in the dorsal fins, scientists try to decipher the migratory movements of the hammer shark, one of the threatened species of the Galapagos. The singular form of its head accused them. To few distance meters the marine investigators of the Scientific Station Charles Darwin identified hammer sharks in waters of the Ecuadorian archipelago. The mission was not easy. They had to...... Similar Editorial : Galapagos Islands by Eric Castro. | Source : South America Vacation
September: The Peak Month Of The Galápagos Dry Season What is it that makes Galapagos islands so amazing during September?? For example, who would expect a barren and desert-like habitat in the middle of the tropics, or who would expect animals not found in other tropical places thriving so well amidst volcanic islands?? For those that take the plunge and see the underwater wonders of the Galapagos islands Marine Reserve (largest one in America), you...... Similar Editorial : Surviving September by Will Clower, Ph.D.. | Source : South America Vacation
Galapagos Marine Reserve: A Natural Heritage For Mankind Along with the national park, the marine reserve in Galapagos Islands has been declared as a Natural Heritage for mankind. The declaration is given in recognition to the unique characteristics of the Marine reserve. There is no other marine area like in Galapagos, this characteristic is reflected in the extraordinary combination of sub tropical ecosystems. In the same way, the high percentage of...... Similar Editorial : The Galapagos Tortoises by Eric Castro. | Source : South America Vacation
Galapagos Whale Shark Diving Aerodynamic, lengthened and robust body, spotted dark gray color, with white or yellowish moles in the whole body. It is darker than most of the sharks. The same as the true whales, it only feeds of plankton and of small fish. When anything near the surface, ingests big swigs of water and it filters the food through the gills. Their color is gray with the white stomach. It is not easy to see,...... Similar Editorial : Galapagos Islands Diving Tips by Eric Castro. | Source : South America Vacation
The Galapagos Tortoises The giant turtles are only in Tortoises and in the atoll of Aldabra in the Indian Ocean. Weighing 270 kilograms, these big reptiles, slow-moving has few natural enemies, but they are threatened by the humans and the animals that they entered. Subsequently their discovery in 1535, the Islands of Tortoises (Galapagos Islands) have been famed by their homonym the giant turtle (elephantopus of...... Similar Editorial : The Exotic Galapagos Islands by Eduardo Landazuri. | Source : South America Vacation
Papallacta Thermal Hot Springs Papallacta is a small and rustic village located over 3.300 meters above sea level (10.800 feet), on the 65th KM (40 th Miles) at the eastern side of Quito, in a humid montane forest, on the road which leads into the Ecuador Amazon Rain Forest; it only takes 2 hours to get there. It is surrounded by beautiful landscapes and the majestic Antisana.The most important touristic attraction of...... Similar Editorial : Thermal Wear by Henery Archie. | Source : Travel Agents Phoenix
Communitie Cultural And Market Experience At Otavalo Metropolitan Touring of Ecuador has introduced a new full-day excursion " Otavalo Cultural Experience", combining the renowned Otavalo Indian market with experiencing the traditional way of life in Peguche, a crafts village known for fine weavings and music, and a lunch of Andean specialties. There are daily departures from Quito the Ecuadorian capital and World Heritage Site. ...... Similar Editorial : Cultural Awareness by N. A Johnson. | Source : Travel Agents Phoenix
The Voyage Of The Beagle The inhabitants are between two and three hundred in number; they are nearly all people of colour, who have been banished for political crimes from the Republic of the Equator, of which Quito is the capital. The settlement is placed about four and a half miles inland, and at a height probably of a thousand feet. In the first part of the road we passed through leafless thickets, as in Chatham...... Similar Editorial : Bon Voyage by kensnow. | Source : Travel Agents Phoenix
