Full day San Cristobal Tour - 360 Degrees from US$235

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Full day San Cristobal Tour - 360 Degrees

Destino: Isla San Cristóbal, Islas Galápagos (Ecuador)

¡Qué excelente elección visitar las Islas Galápagos! Para aprovechar al máximo tu experiencia en San Cristóbal, te recomiendo algunas guías y libros. Puedes consultar la guía "Galápagos: The Islands That Changed the World" de Paul D. Stewart, perfecta para conocer la historia natural y las maravillas únicas del archipiélago. Además, la guía Lonely Planet Ecuador & the Galápagos Islands es muy útil para viajeros independientes, con mapas, consejos prácticos y recomendaciones actualizadas. Por último, si prefieres un enfoque histórico-cultural, "Las Islas Encantadas" de Herman Melville te brindará una visión literaria fascinante sobre las Galápagos. ¡Cualquier duda adicional, estaré encantado de ayudarte a planificar tu viaje!

About the destination

San Cristóbal (Chatham) is the easternmost island in the Galápagos archipelago, as well as one of the oldest geologically. It is administratively part of San Cristóbal Canton, Ecuador. Its Spanish (and official Ecuadorian) name "San Cristóbal" comes from the patron saint of seafarers, St. Christopher. English speakers increasingly use that name in preference to the traditional English name of Chatham Island, derived from William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. San Cristobal Island is composed of three or four fused volcanoes, all extinct. It is home to the oldest permanent settlement of the islands and is the island where Darwin first went ashore in 1835. A small lake called El Junco is the only source of fresh water in the islands. The availability of fresh water is what led to the early settlement of San Cristobal. A penal colony was built on San Cristóbal Island in 1880 for prisoners from mainland Ecuador. This later turned into a military base for Ecuador and export center for the island's products including sugar, coffee, cassava, cattle, fish and lime.

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