Santa Cruz Island
Dragon Hill is an old tuff cone, found in the northwestern part of Santa Cruz Island and named by the first settlers at the beginning of the last century.
In those days, to sail several miles outside the village was a big adventure; the boats or canoes mostly moved by paddles or little sails. Every time they went a little further making big discoveries.
Santa Cruz was colonized at the beginning of the nineteen hundreds, by courageous Ecuadorians, looking for adventure in this new volcanic paradise. The only way to survive in those years in the islands was planting vegetables up in the highlands, fishing or hunting goats and pigs which had been left behind many years before by earlier explorers.
Reptiles keep growing until they die, and they have a long life. They can easily live up to sixty years of age; these old iguanas impressed the first settlers so much that they named them Dragons, the dragons of Galápagos Islands.
Dragon Hill is an old tuff cone, found in the northwestern part of Santa Cruz Island and named by the first settlers at the beginning of the last century.
In those days, to sail several miles outside the village was a big adventure; the boats or canoes mostly moved by paddles or little sails. Every time they went a little further making big discoveries.
Santa Cruz was colonized at the beginning of the nineteen hundreds, by courageous Ecuadorians, looking for adventure in this new volcanic paradise. The only way to survive in those years in the islands was planting vegetables up in the highlands, fishing or hunting goats and pigs which had been left behind many years before by earlier explorers.
Reptiles keep growing until they die, and they have a long life. They can easily live up to sixty years of age; these old iguanas impressed the first settlers so much that they named them Dragons, the dragons of Galápagos Islands.
