Galapagos

Islands

By Camila Duran and Brisa Suárez

 Describe the site
• This formed by thirteen Islands large, six Islands medium and 215 islets of size
small.
• The islands have a beautiful landscape and it has great biodiversity of flora and
fauna
• The islands are habitats for species such as sea turtles, dolphins, sharks, whales,
coral reefs, iguanas, lizards, cormorants, albatrosses, sea lions and penguins.
 Where it is?

• The Galapagos archipielago is located in the

pacific ocean,betwen the equintial line at
approximately 970 km,in the west of the
continent ecuador.
 When it was listed?

• Unesco declared the Galapagos Islands a World Natural Heritage Site in

1979.This islands were listed on April 2007 as a World Heritage Site in Danger
because There were combat to the afuereñas species that was one of the main
problems highlighted by the Unesco to warn of the risk and the danger in which
they are the islands. The Ecuadorean government makes many efforts to save one
of its environmental patrimonies
 What is anything was happened
to the sit?

• On July 29, 2010, the Galapagos Islands were

removed from the list of patrimonies in danger of
extinction by the Unesco Heritage Committee
 Does the site have many
tourism?

The archipelago has the largest source of tourism

income and receives 200,000 tourists per year.3
Ecological tourism has also been developed in
order to preserve the species.
 Do people live at the site?

• The islands have more than 25000 habitants

Is the site famous for any
particulary?

• Yes, it is famous for the different types of animals, some of

which are almost all that are left there. It is estimated that
the formation of the first island took place more than five
million years ago
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By Camila
Duran and Brisa
Suárez