GALAPAGOS ISLANDS - ECUADOR

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, 972 km west of Continental Ecuador of which they are a part. Ecuador, a republic in northwestern South America; became independent from Spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated by the Andes (a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast)

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