Galapagos Tortoises awaits for you in the highland of Santa Cruz! There are many islands around the archipelago from which the tortoises originate was named after them by Spanish sailors in the 16th century – the Spanish word for tortoise is galapago. And 500 years ago there were believed to be at least 250,000 of them on […]
Human History & AdventuresThe islands were discovered in 1535 by Fray Tomas de Berlanga, was a bishop who had been sailing from Panama to Peru and happened upon the islands. The islands became named the Galapagos Islands due to the giant tortoises found there. The word galapago is related to the tortoise shell shape which […]
GALÁPAGOS FREE COVID ISLANDSGalápagos will become the first covid-19-free archipelago in Latin America.A vaccination plan has already begun in the Galapagos Islands, which plans to vaccinate the entire adult population by the end of May.Pfizer approved an advance of 40,000 doses of its vaccine to vaccinate the entire adult population of Galapagos, where approximately 30,000 […]