The Galapagos Islands located along the equator , sitting just 525 miles out into the Pacific Ocean off the western coast of South America and the country of Ecuador, this archipelago is made up of 60 named volcanic islands.
With a population of just over 23,000 residents, the Galapagos Islands have become a major tourist draw, today, the islands made famous by Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution have transformed the Galapagos into a biological marine reserve, a national park as well as a Ecuadorian province.
