Galapagos it is a chain of more than 330 Islands, Islets and Rocks located 600 hundred Nautical Miles from the closest Continental mass, which is Ecuador. However, that was not the main reason Galapagos belong to Ecuador, but because many European countries, which sailed this water, did not claimed Galapagos simply because, there were not natural resources on the Island.
Galapagos it is wold famous nowadays because of the importance among the scientific community to understand evolution.
Along this week, we are going to have a chance to see species that are found in Galapagos and nowhere else. Some species are even strictly endemic to one Particular Island. That is the magic of Galapagos!