Galápagos Islands
A World Heritage Site in Ecuador, inscribed in 1978 as a Natural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Ecuador
- Region
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Inscribed
- 1978
- Category
- Natural Site
- Criteria
- (vii)(viii)(ix)(x)
- Property area
- approx. 140,665 km² (14,066,514 ha)
- Component parts
- 1
- Coordinates
- -0.6899, -90.5013
- UNESCO ID
- 1
Source: factual data from UNESCO DataHub (whc001 / CC BY-SA 4.0). This site uses only factual information such as names, countries, inscription years and categories. No official UNESCO/WHC descriptions, photographs or logos are used.
Names in other languages
- French
- Îles Galápagos
- Spanish
- Islas Galápagos
- Chinese
- 加拉帕戈斯群岛
Other World Heritage Sites in Ecuador
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