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 The Galapagos Islands consist of 13 major islands and 17 smaller islands and some  40 rocks that make up the archipelago were born from a fiery volcano deep in the Pacific Ocean  The Galapagos islands are a province of Ecuador  There are 13 main islands. Only 3 islands are popular There are in the equator

LOCATION  The Galapagos island are over a “hotspot “ in the earth crust The islands are always moving because the tectonics plate the old island are moving far from the news ones and the sometime are creating other  Absolute location O,90 about 600 miles west of south America Of the coast of Ecuador

GALAPAGOS ISLAND

CHARLES DARWIN  1535-The Galapagos Islands are discovered by the Bishop of Panama, Fray Tomas de Berlanga  1835–Charles Darwin arrived on HMS Beagle  He study the different animal in the island and why they live there.  Darwin was a British scientist who laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the way we think about the natural world.

DIFFERE 20 species make their home in Ecuador

PLANTS There are 560 native species of plants in the islands,  White Mangrove

CLIMATE  The temperature, precipitation, winds, etc., in a particular area over a long period of time  Mild temperature rarely above 80 degrees  May to December -winds blow to the southeast cold and dry conditions  January to April warmer winds, and rain

TOURS  Galapagos cruises around the 17 island of Galapagos

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