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:

## Gallery

File:Alvaro Sevilla Design Isla Santa Cruz Galapagos foto tomada desde el avión.jpg|Itabaca Channel.
File:Boats in Puerto Ayora on the Island of Santa Cruz in the Galapagos photo by Alvaro Sevilla Design.JPG|Boats in Puerto Ayora on the Island o Santa Cruz
File:Sailboats in Puerto Ayora on the Island of Santa Cruz Galapagos photo by Alvaro Sevilla Design.JPG|Sailboats in Puerto Ayora
File:Sailboat in the Puerto Ayora on the Island of Santa Cruz Galapagos photo by Alvaro Sevilla Design.JPG|Sailboat in the Puerto Ayora
File:Two ducks in the galapagos islands - santa cruz, ecuador.JPG|Twa Deuks in Puerto Ayora on the Island o Santa Cruz, Galápagos
File:Gigantic Turtle on the Island of Santa Cruz in the Galapagos.JPG|Galápagos tortoise - Chelonoidis nigra
File:Side angle shot of a gigantic galapagos turtle on the island of santa cruz.JPG|Gigantic galapagos turtle on Santa Cruz
File:A gigantic galapagos tortuga on the island of santa cruz.JPG|Gigantic galapagos turtle on the island o santa cruz
File:Gigantic galapagos turtle on the island of santa cruz.JPG|Gigantic galapagos turtle on the island o santa cruz
File:Multi Color Crab walking on Tortuga Bay photo by Alvaro Sevilla Design.JPG|Grapsus grapsus
File:Galapagos Island of Santa Cruz - Tortuga Bay Marine Iguana.JPG| Tortuga Bay 
File:Iguana on the beach at Tortuga Bay Galapagos photo by Alvaro Sevilla Design.JPG|Amblyrhynchus cristatus
File:Tortuga Bay - Island of Santa Cruz, Galapagos.JPG| Tortuga Bay -  Amblyrhynchus cristatus
File:North Seymour Island in the Galapagos about to land on shore photo by Alvaro Sevilla Design.JPG|North Seymour Island 
File:North Seymour Island Galapagos Seal photo with baby by Alvaro Sevilla Design.JPG|Zalophus wollebaeki
File:A Galapagos Land Iguana on the North Seymour Island in the Galapagos photo by Alvaro Sevilla Design.JPG|Iguana
File:Hand carved turtle from the Galapagos Alvaro Sevilla Design.JPG|Haund carvit turtle
File:Galapagos Coffee from the Island of Santa Cruz photo by Alvaro Sevilla Design.JPG|Galapagos Coffee
File:Water taxi in Puerto Ayora on the Island of Santa Cruz in the Galapagos photo by Alvaro Sevilla Design.JPG|Watter taxi on Puerto Ayora
File:Puerto Ayora isla Santa Cruz Islas Galápagos Ecuador foto por Alvaro Sevilla Design.jpg|Puerto Ayora at nicht
File:Fresh Water Swimming in the Galapagos on the Island of Santa Cruz.JPG|Santa Cruz
File:Tortuga Bay Galapagos Island of Santa Cruz.JPG|Tortuga Bay - Santa Cruz
File:North Seymour Island in the Galapagos.JPG|North Seymour Island
File:The beach at North Seymour Island in the Galapagos.jpeg|North Seymour Island


## 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