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The Galapagos Islands - Ecological Reserve
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The unique Galapagos Islands, in all their dramatic and desolate volcanic
beauty, lie
600 miles west of mainland Ecuador's Pacific coast.
This living natural laboratory, inspiration for Darwin's theory of evolution, is home to marine and land
creatures - some found nowhere else to the world - which have no Instinctive fear of man.
Travelers sailing around the islands, one of the greatest diving sites on earth, come him unimaginably close contact with art impressive array of animal and bird life including fur seals, hammerhead sharks, iguanas, boobies, manta rays, penguins, turtles, and tortoises in this, the greatest wildlife sanctuary on earth.
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For Information about each
island, Click on the map or text-link:
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Climate: |
Islands typically have variations in
temperatures from 88 F in March and April, to 75 F in August and
September. January through April is the rainy season, but even
then rainfall rarely exceeds 2 inches per month. |
UNESCO has declared the 13 main islands and dozens of smaller islets and rocks of the protected volcanic Galapagos archipelago a World Heritage
Site. Described as a separate "center of creation" by Charles
Darwin, the creatures of these unique "Enchanted Islands" have no instinctive fear of man, allowing
travelers to observe the life-cycles of a huge range of marine mammals,
reptiles, invertebrates, and birds at incredibly close quarters. Nearly a quarter of all species
are endemic and some, such as the flightless cormorant, Galapagos mockingbird,
Galapagos giant tortoises and the marine iguana, are found nowhere else an earth.
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