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Galápagos Islands

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The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, 926 km west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part. The Galápagos Islands and its surrounding waters form an Ecuadorian province, a national park, and a biological marine reserve. The principal language on the islands is Spanish. The islands have a population of slightly over 25,000. The islands are famed for their vast number of endemic species. They were studied by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle. His observations and collections contributed to the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. The first navigation chart of the islands was made by the buccaneer Ambrose Cowley in 1684. He named the individual islands after some of his fellow pirates or after the British noblemen who helped the privateer's cause. More recently, the Ecuadorian government gave most of the islands Spanish names. While the Spanish names are official, many users (especially ecological researchers) continue to use the older English names, principally because those were the names used when Charles Darwin visited.

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Wikipedia Inglés http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal�pagos_Islands

Wikipedia Español http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islas_Gal�pagos

Enlaces externos relacionado http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/Galapagos.html http://www.darwiningalapagos.com http://islasgalapagos.org http://www.galapagospark.org http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1