Galápagos Province

Galápagos is a province o Ecuador in the kintra's Insular region, locatit approximately  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.

History
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.

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

 Canton  Aurie(km²) Caipital Principal islands Isabela  1,780 5,367 Puerto Villamil Darwin, Fernandina, Isabela, Wolf   6,142 849  Española, Floreana, Genovesa,  San Cristóbal, Santa Fe Santa Cruz  11,262 1,794 Puerto Ayora Baltra, Bartolomé, Marchena, North Seymour, Pinta, Pinzón, Rábida, Santa Cruz, Santiago Galápagos  19,184 8,010 Puerto Baquerizo Moreno  Censo de Población y Vivienda, Galápagos 2006 . Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos (INEC).

Gallery

 See an aw 
 Provinces o Ecuador
 Cantons o Ecuador
 Galapagos Naitional Pairk

 References 

 Freemit airtins 

 Galapagos National Park 
 Galápagos Islands xeric scrub (World Wildlife Fund)
 Galápagos geologie, wi general information on the Galápagos Islands
INEC map o the cantons 
Parishes athin the cantons 


Category:Provinces o Ecuador
Category:States an territories established in 1973