Size: 24 km2
Altitude: 259 m

Visitor site: Santa Fé

Wet landing with two possibilities of trails, depending on the time and visitor's preferences.

1: Short trail: the trail leads from the sea lion colony on the beach through dry vegetation of the Arid Zone to a wonderful forested cliff with high prickly pear cactus and then back to a second beach.

2. Long trail: the trail is, at the beginning, a dry stony creek and you have a steep climb up onto a plateau (difficult trail). The ascension leads through the zone of Scalesia helleri. Up on the plateau there are high trees of palo santo and high prickly pear cactus trees. The view down to the bay is wonderful.

Only the very attentive visitors can detect up there the endemic land iguana of Santa Fe, because it is perfectly camouflaged in the same colours of the vegetation and their territories are quiet big.

Visitor Site: Snorkelling in Santa Fe

Snorkelling in the bay and along a rocky coast




Opuntia, Santa Fé
Opuntia, Santa Fé

ANIMALS

  • Galapagos sea lion
  • Galapagos mockingbird
  • Galapagos hawk
  • Galapagos dove
  • Darwin's finches (medium, small and cactus ground finch, small tree finch and warbler finch)
  • Yellow warbler
  • Santa-Fe land iguana (Conolophus pallidus)
  • Lava lizards
  • Galapagos snake

PLANTS

  • Croton scouleri Opuntia (prickly pear cactus trees)
  • Palo santo
  • Maytenus octogona
<P>Santa Fe Land Iguana</P>

Santa Fe Land Iguana

UNDERWATER WORLD

  • Sting ray
  • Spotted eagle ray
  • Yellow tailed
  • Surgeonfisch
  • White-banded Angelfish
  • Parrot-fish
  • Galapagos sea lions
  • Marine turtles (depending on the season)
  • Eventual white-tipped reef shark
 
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