Flights to Galapagos

Floreana Island (also known as Santa Maria in Spanish and in English as Charles) is the sixth largest island because of its size in square kilometers of the Ecuadorian archipelago of the Galapagos Islands, administratively part of the parish called Santa Maria, of Canton St Cristobal in the Galapagos, and its largest town in the town of Puerto Velasco Ibarra.

The island is  18 km long by 16 wide, has an area of 173 km ² and a maximum altitude of 640 meters (Cerro Pajas). It was named after Juan José Flores, the first President of Ecuador, during whose administration the Ecuadorian government took possession of the archipelago. Also known as Santa Maria in honor of one of the caravels of Columbus. . It was one of the first islands to be inhabited and that caused more controversy in the international press of the early twentieth century. Pink flamingos and sea turtles nest on the island between December and May, on this island you can find a small population of Galapagos penguins. In the well-known Bay Post Office (Post Office Bay), from the seventeenth century whalers and pirates that sailed the endless waters of the Pacific, they used a barrel at Post Office so that the cards could be collected and delivered to the recipients , mainly in Europe and the United States by the ships that were on their way back. In "Devil's Crown, a submerged volcanic cone, makes it possible that one can observe interesting coral formations.