Galapagos Islands

Galapagos Islands

GalapagosIslands, know more in the know with the name is the name of the Galapagos Islands, a country composed of 13 volcanic islands and rocks that are situated around the Pacific Ocean approximately 1,000 km west coast of South America. When viewed in terms of the Galapagos Islands are politically part of the State of Ecuador, the oldest island in the Galapagos archipelago has about four million years old and the youngest is still in the process of island formation, the Galapagos Islands is one of the most active volcanoes in the world to today. When you hear the name of the Galapagos Islands, then what comes to mind first is a land that became the starting point of the scientist Charles Darwin's theory of a very famous theory of evolution is precisely the theory of natural selection, Galapagos Islands are also very famous for its many endemic species are large. In general, the Galapagos Islands are divided into two parts, namely the north of the equator and the south of the equator, on the island including the largest island in the Galapagos are named Isabela in the past by the equator. Some of the unique wildlife species endemic even in the Galapagos Islands, among others: land Iguana (Conolophus subcristatus) marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) of this iguana is the only type of iguanas throughout the world who eat food from the sea, giant turtles are animals Galapgos The most famous of the Galapagos Islands because of their large size (Geochelone elephantopus) in Spanish is known as Galápago animal, this animal is at once an animal from which the name of this island, besides the Galapagos there are also 13 species of endemic birds finches, Galapagos penguin, Spheniscus mendiculus.

Sea birds are not flying, Nannopterum harrisi Since the number of endemic species and many others to the uniqueness of the Galapagos Islands Galapagos since 1959 is set as a nature reserve which protects 97.5% of this archipelago. The rest is used as a human settlement that has been settled at the time of the determination of the Galapagos as a nature reserve, around about 1000 to 2000 people lived and settled there. In 1972 the population census carried out after carrying as many as 3488 people, up to 1980 this number has increased up to 15000 people living in the Galapagos. Since 1986 the sea around the Galapagos Islands has been declared a marine reserve of the world. Even more than that UNESCO has set as one of the Galapagos World Heritage Site in 1978 that eventually extended in December 2001.