Galapagos Islands

The Galapagos Islands are a small archipelago of islands belonging to in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The islands are quite remote and isolated, lying some 1000 km west of the South American continent, and the archipelago is bisected by the equator.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Isabela and Santa Cruz.

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Island, known by its Spanish name of Isla and less commonly by its English name of Albemarle Island, is the largest of the Galapagos Islands of .

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is the most important island in the Galapagos Islands archipelago, in . It contains the largest town in the Galapagos Islands, Puerto Ayora, which is the only location on the island with tourist infrastructure, on the southern side of the island, and is connected by road and ferry to the airport on Island.

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San Cristóbal Island, also known as Chatham Island, is the easternmost in the Galápagos archipelago, as well as one of the oldest geologically. It is administratively part of , .

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Fernandina and Floreana.

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Island, also known in Spanish as Isla and less commonly by its English name of Narborough Island, is one of Galapagos Islands of .

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Island, also known by its Spanish names of Isla and Isla Santa Maria, and by its English name of Charles Island, is one of the Galapagos Islands of .

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Island, also known as Barrington Island, is a small of 24 square kilometres which lies in the middle of the Galápagos Archipelago in . Visitor access is by a wet landing in Barrington Bay on the northeastern side of the island.

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Island, also known in Spanish as Isla or by its English name of Tower Island, is one of Galapagos Islands of .

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is one of Galapagos Islands. Located in the central part of the archipelago. is the only island that is not part of the national park.

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Española or Island is the most southerly of the Galápagos Islands in , about a 10 to 12-hour trip by boat from .

Galapagos Islands

  • Type: Island with 33,000 residents
  • Description: Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, part of Ecuador since 1832
  • Also known as: “Archipelago of Colon”, “Archipelago of Columbus”, “Archipelago of Ecuador”, “Archipelago of the Equator”, “Bewitched Islands”, “Colon Archipelago”, “Colon Islands”, “Colons”, “Columbus Archipelago”, “Columbus Islands”, “Ecuador Archipelago”, “Enchanted Islands”, “Enchanted Isles”, “Enchanteds”, “Galapagos”, “Galapagos Archipelago”, “Galápagos Archipelago”, “Galápagos Islands”, “Galapagoses”, “Galápagoses”, “Gallapagos”, “Gallapagos I.”, “Gallapagos Isl.”, “Gallapagos Islands”, “I. Gallapagos”, “Inchanted Islands”, “Inchanteds”, “Insular Region”, “Insular Region of Ecuador”, “Islands of the Equator”, “Isles of Gallapagos”, “Las Encantadas”, “the Galapagos”, and “the Galapagoses”
  • Categories: archipelago, WWF ecoregion, and tourist attraction
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
-0.6111° or 0° 36′ 40″ south
Longitude of center
-90.6657° or 90° 39′ 57″ west
Population
33,000
United Nations Location Code
EC GPS
Geo­Names ID
3658931
Wiki­data ID
Q38095
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Galapagos Islands” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Galapagos eilande”
  • Afrikaans: “Galápagos Eilande”
  • Afrikaans: “Galápagos Islands”
  • Afrikaans: “Galapagos-eilande”
  • Afrikaans: “Galápagos-eilande”
  • Afrikaans: “Galápagoseilende”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt Galapagos”
  • Arabic: “أرخبيل غالاباغوس”
  • Arabic: “جالاباجوس”
  • Arabic: “جزر الغالاباغوس”
  • Arabic: “جزر جلاباجوس”
  • Arabic: “جزر غالاباغوس”
  • Arabic: “جلابا جوس”
  • Arabic: “غالاباغوس”
  • Aragonese: “Galapagos”
  • Aragonese: “Islas Galapagos”
  • Armenian: “Գալապագոսյան կղզիներ”
  • Asturian: “Islles Galápagos”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qalapaqos adaları”
  • Bashkir: “Галапагос”
  • Basque: “Galapago Uharteak”
  • Basque: “Galapagoak”
  • Basque: “Kolonen uhartedia”
  • Belarusian: “Архіпелаг Калон”
  • Belarusian: “Галапагас”
  • Belarusian: “Галяпагаскія астравы”
  • Belarusian: “Чарапашыя астравы”
  • Bengali: “গালাপাগোস দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bengali: “গ্যালাপাগোস দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bosnian: “Galapagos Ostrva”
  • Bosnian: “Galapagos”
  • Bosnian: “Galapagoska ostrva”
  • Bosnian: “Galapagoška Ostrva”
  • Breton: “Inizi Galapagos”
  • Breton: “Inizi Galápagos”
  • Bulgarian: “Галапагос”
  • Bulgarian: “Галапагоски острови”
  • Bulgarian: “Костенуркови острови”
  • Bulgarian: “Острови Галапагос”
  • Burmese: “ဂါလာပါဂိုးကျွန်းများ”
  • Catalan: “Galàpagos”
  • Catalan: “illes Galápagos”
  • Catalan: “Illes Galápagos”
  • Catalan: “Illes Galàpagos”
  • Cebuano: “Galapagos Islands”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی گالاپاگۆس”
  • Cherokee: “Ꭶ⁠Ꮃ⁠Ꮖ⁠Ꭺ⁠Ꮝ⁠ ᎠᎽᏰᎵ”
  • Chinese: “Galápagos Kûn-tó”
  • Chinese: “加拉巴哥群島”
  • Chinese: “加拉帕戈斯”
  • Chinese: “加拉帕戈斯群岛”
  • Chinese: “加拉帕戈斯群島”
  • Chinese: “科隆群岛”
  • Chinese: “科隆群島”
  • Croatian: “Galapagos”
  • Croatian: “Galápagos”
  • Croatian: “Galapagoško otočje”
  • Croatian: “Otočje Galapagos”
  • Croatian: “Otočje Galápagos”
  • Czech: “Galapágy”
  • Danish: “Galapagos-øerne”
  • Danish: “Galapagos”
  • Danish: “Galapagosøerne”
  • Danish: “Galápagosøerne”
  • Dhivehi: “ގަލާޕެގޮސް އައިލެންޑްސް”
  • Dutch: “Galapagos Eilanden”
  • Dutch: “Galapagos-eilanden”
  • Dutch: “Galápagos-eilanden”
  • Dutch: “Galapagoseilanden”
  • Dutch: “Galápagoseilanden”
  • Dutch: “Galapos eilanden”
  • Esperanto: “Galapaga Insularo”
  • Esperanto: “Galapagoj”
  • Esperanto: “Galapagos Insularo”
  • Esperanto: “Galápagos”
  • Esperanto: “Insuloj Galapagoj”
  • Estonian: “Colóni saarestik”
  • Estonian: “Galapagos”
  • Estonian: “Galapagose saared”
  • Estonian: “Galápagose saared”
  • Faroese: “Galapagos”
  • Faroese: “Galapagosoyggjar”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Galapagos Islands”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Galápagos Islands”
  • Finnish: “Galapagos-saaret”
  • Finnish: “Galápagos-saaret”
  • Finnish: “Galapagos”
  • Finnish: “Galapagossaaret”
  • Finnish: “Galápagossaaret”
  • French: “Archipel de Colon”
  • French: “Archipel de Colón”
  • French: “Archipel des Galapagos”
  • French: “Archipel des Galápagos”
  • French: “Archipiélago de Colon”
  • French: “Archipiélago de Colón”
  • French: “Galapagos Islands”
  • French: “Galápagos Islands”
  • French: “Galapagos”
  • French: “Galápagos”
  • French: “Îles de Colon”
  • French: “Îles de Colón”
  • French: “Iles Enchantées”
  • French: “Îles Enchantées”
  • French: “Iles Galapagos”
  • French: “Iles Galápagos”
  • French: “Îles Galapagos”
  • French: “îles Galápagos”
  • French: “Îles Galápagos”
  • French: “Iles-Enchantées”
  • French: “Îles-Enchantées”
  • French: “Islas de Colon”
  • French: “Islas de Colón”
  • Galician: “Galápagos”
  • Galician: “Illas Galápagos”
  • Georgian: “გალაპაგოსი”
  • Georgian: “გალაპაგოსის არქიპელაგი”
  • Georgian: “გალაპაგოსის კუნძულები”
  • German: “Archipelago de Colon”
  • German: “Archipélago de Colón”
  • German: “Archipielago de Colon”
  • German: “Archipiélago de Colón”
  • German: “Galapagos-Archipel”
  • German: “Galápagos-Archipel”
  • German: “Galapagos-Insel”
  • German: “Galápagos-Insel”
  • German: “Galapagos-Inseln”
  • German: “Galápagos-Inseln”
  • German: “Galapagosinseln”
  • German: “Galápagosinseln”
  • German: “Islas Galapagos”
  • German: “Kolumbusarchipel”
  • Greek: “Γκαλαπάγκος”
  • Greek: “Γκαλάπαγος”
  • Greek: “Νησιά Γκαλαπάγκος”
  • Greek: “Νησιά Γκαλάπαγος”
  • Gujarati: “ગેલાપાગોસ આઈલેન્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “איי גלאפגוס”
  • Hebrew: “איי גלפאגוס”
  • Hebrew: “איי גלפגוס”
  • Hebrew: “ארכיפלגו דה קולון”
  • Hebrew: “גלאפגוס”
  • Hebrew: “גלפאגוס”
  • Hebrew: “גלפגוס”
  • Hindi: “गैलापागोस द्वीप समूह”
  • Hindi: “गैलापागोस द्वीपसमूह”
  • Hungarian: “Galápagos Islands”
  • Hungarian: “Galapagos-szigetek”
  • Hungarian: “Galápagos-szigetek”
  • Icelandic: “Galapagos”
  • Icelandic: “Galápagos”
  • Icelandic: “Galapagoseyjar”
  • Icelandic: “Galápagoseyjar”
  • Ido: “Galapagi”
  • Indonesian: “Galapagos”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Galapagos”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Galápagos”
  • Irish: “Oileáin Galápagos”
  • Irish: “Oileáin Ghalápagos”
  • Italian: “Arcipelago del Colon”
  • Italian: “Arcipelago delle Galapagos”
  • Italian: “Colon”
  • Italian: “Galapagos Islands”
  • Italian: “Galapagos”
  • Italian: “Galápagos”
  • Italian: “Isole Galapagos”
  • Italian: “Isole Galápagos”
  • Japanese: “ガラパゴス諸島”
  • Javanese: “Kapuloan Galapagos”
  • Javanese: “Kapuloan Galápagos”
  • Kannada: “ಗಲಾಪಗಸ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
  • Kannada: “ಗಲಾಪಗೋಸ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
  • Kazakh: “Галапагос аралдары”
  • Kazakh: “Галапагос”
  • Khmer: “កោះហ្កាឡាប៉ាហ្កូស”
  • Kirghiz: “Галапагос”
  • Korean: “갈라파고스 군도”
  • Korean: “갈라파고스 섬”
  • Korean: “갈라파고스 제도”
  • Korean: “갈라파고스”
  • Korean: “콜론 제도”
  • Latin: “Galapagenses Insulae”
  • Latin: “Galapagos”
  • Latin: “Insulae de los Galopegos”
  • Latin: “Insulae Galapagenses”
  • Latin: “Insulae Testudinariae”
  • Latvian: “Galapagu salas”
  • Limburgan: “Galapagoseilen”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Isolas Galapagos”
  • Lithuanian: “Galapagai”
  • Lithuanian: “Galapagos”
  • Lithuanian: “Galapagų salos”
  • Low German: “Galapagos-Inseln”
  • Low German: “Galápagos-Inseln”
  • Low German: “Galapagoseilaanden”
  • Luxembourgish: “Archipiélago de Colón”
  • Luxembourgish: “Galapagos-Inselen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Galápagos-Inselen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Galápagos”
  • Luxembourgish: “Galapagosinselen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Galápagosinselen”
  • Macedonian: “Галапагос”
  • Malagasy: “Vondronosy Galapagos”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Galapagos”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Galápagos”
  • Malayalam: “ഗാലപ്പഗോസ് ദ്വീപുകൾ”
  • Maltese: “Galapagos”
  • Maltese: “Galapágos”
  • Maltese: “Gżejjer Galapagos”
  • Maltese: “Il-Galapagos”
  • Maori: “Moutere Galápagos”
  • Marathi: “गालापागोस द्वीपसमूह”
  • Marathi: “गालापागोस”
  • Marathi: “गॅलापागोस द्वीपसमूह”
  • Marathi: “गॅलापागोस”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Colón Kûn-tó”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Galápagos Kûn-tó”
  • Minangkabau: “Kapulauan Galapagos”
  • Mongolian: “Галапагосын арлууд”
  • Mongolian: “Галапагосын Арлууд”
  • Nepali: “गालापागोस टापुहरू”
  • Nepali: “गालापागोस टापू”
  • Northern Frisian: “Galapagos Eilunen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Galapagos-øyene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Galápagos-øyene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Galapagos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Galápagos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Galápagosarkipel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Galápagosarkipelet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Galapagosøyene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Galápagosøyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Galápagos Islands”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Galapagos-øyane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Galápagos-øyane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Galápagos-øyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Galápagos-øygruppa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Galapagos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Galápagos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Galapagosøyane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Galápagosøyane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Galapagosøyene”
  • Norwegian: “Galápagosøyene”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Galápagos”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Galápagos”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Galapægīega”
  • Panjabi: “ਗਲਾਪਾਗੋਸ ਦੀਪ ਸਮੂਹ”
  • Papiamento: “Islanan Galapagos”
  • Papiamento: “Islanan Galápagos”
  • Persian: “جزایر گالاپاگس”
  • Persian: “جزایر گالاپاگوس”
  • Persian: “گالاپاگس”
  • Persian: “گالاپاگوس”
  • Persian: “مجمع‌الجزایر گالاپاگوس”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Galapagas Ailen”
  • Polish: “Galapagos”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Galapagos”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Galápagos”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Żółwie”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago de Colombo”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago de Galápagos”
  • Portuguese: “Galápagos Islands”
  • Portuguese: “Galápagos”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Galápagos”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Galápagos”
  • Portuguese: “Islas Galápagos”
  • Quechua: “Galápagos”
  • Quechua: “Islas Galápagos”
  • Quechua: “Yawatisuyu”
  • Romanian: “Arhipelagul Galapagos”
  • Romanian: “Galapagos”
  • Romanian: “Insulele galapagos”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Galápagos”
  • Russian: “Галапагос”
  • Russian: “Галапагосские острова”
  • Russian: “Галапагосский архипелаг”
  • Russian: “Черепашьи острова”
  • Sakizaya: “Cya-la-pa-ke a kasasubalan”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Galápagos-Ailounde”
  • Serbian: “Галапагос”
  • Serbian: “Галапагоска острва”
  • Serbian: “Острва Галапагос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Galápagos”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Otočje Galápagos”
  • Sicilian: “Galapagos”
  • Sicilian: “Galápagos”
  • Sinhala: “ගැලපගස් දුපත්”
  • Sinhala: “ගැලපගෝස් දූපත්”
  • Slovak: “Galapágy”
  • Slovak: “Korytnačie ostrovy”
  • Slovenian: “Galapagos”
  • Slovenian: “Galápagos”
  • Slovenian: “Galapaški otoki”
  • Slovenian: “Galapaško otočje”
  • Spanish: “Archipielago de Colon”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago de Colon”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago de Colón”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago de Galápagos”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago de los Galápagos”
  • Spanish: “Encantadas”
  • Spanish: “Galapagos”
  • Spanish: “Galápagos”
  • Spanish: “I. de Galápagos”
  • Spanish: “I. Encantadas”
  • Spanish: “Ias. de Galápagos”
  • Spanish: “Islas de Galpagos”
  • Spanish: “Islas de los Galápagos”
  • Spanish: “Islas Encantadas”
  • Spanish: “Islas Galapagos”
  • Spanish: “Islas galápagos”
  • Spanish: “Islas Galápagos”
  • Spanish: “las Encantadas”
  • Spanish: “Region Insular de Ecuador”
  • Spanish: “Región Insular de Ecuador”
  • Spanish: “Region Insular del Ecuador”
  • Spanish: “Región Insular del Ecuador”
  • Spanish: “Y. de Galapagos”
  • Spanish: “Y. de Galápagos”
  • Spanish: “Yas. de Galapagos”
  • Spanish: “Yslas de Galapagos”
  • Spanish: “Yslas de Galápagos”
  • Swahili: “Galapagos”
  • Swedish: “Galapagos”
  • Swedish: “Galapagosarkipelagen”
  • Swedish: “Galapagosöarna”
  • Swedish: “Galápagosöarna”
  • Tagalog: “Galapagos Islands”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluan ng Galapagos”
  • Tagalog: “Mga Pulo ng Galápagos”
  • Tajik: “Галапагос”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Галапагос”
  • Tamil: “கலபகோஸ் ஐலன்ட்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “கலாபகசுத் தீவுகள்”
  • Tamil: “கலாபகோஸ் தீவுகள்”
  • Tamil: “காலபாகசுத் தீவுகள்”
  • Tatar: “Галапагос утраулары”
  • Telugu: “గాలాపాగోస్ దీవులు”
  • Thai: “Galápagos”
  • Thai: “กาลาปากอส”
  • Thai: “กาลาปาโกส”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะกะลาปากอส”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะกาลาปากอส”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะกาลาปาโกส”
  • Turkish: “Galapagos Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Galápagos Adaları”
  • Turkmen: “Galapagos adalary”
  • Uighur: “گالپاگوس تاقىم ئارىلى”
  • Ukrainian: “Галапагоський архіпелаг”
  • Ukrainian: “Галапагоські острови”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґалапаґоські острови”
  • Urdu: “جزائر گالاپاگوز”
  • Uzbek: “Galapagos orollari”
  • Uzbek: “Galapagos Orollari”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Galápagos”
  • Vietnamese: “Galápagos”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Galapagos”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Galápagos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Galapagos Islands”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Galápagos Islands”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Galapagos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Galapagos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Galápagos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropud-an Galápagos”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Galapagos”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Galápagos”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd y Galapagos”
  • Western Frisian: “Galapagoseilannen”
  • Western Mari: “Галапагос ошмаотывлӓ”
  • Western Panjabi: “جزائر گالاپاگوس”
  • Western Panjabi: “گالاپیگوس جزیرے”
  • Wu Chinese: “科隆群岛”
  • Yiddish: “גאלאפאגאס אינזלען”
  • Yue Chinese: “加拉帕戈斯群島”
  • “ma Kalapako”

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