Puerto Ayora

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Puerto Ayora
Puerto Ayora (Galápagos Islands)
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Coordinates 0 ° 45 ′  S , 90 ° 19 ′  W Coordinates: 0 ° 45 ′  S , 90 ° 19 ′  W
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Basic data
Country Ecuador

province

Galápagos
ISO 3166-2 EC-W
Residents 11,974 (2010)
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With around 12,000 inhabitants (as of 2010), Puerto Ayora is the largest and therefore also the most important place on the Galapagos Islands .

The place is located on the second largest and most populous island of Santa Cruz in the Galápagos Archipelago. Since UNESCO drafted a nature conservation plan for the islands in 1957, the population of Puerto Ayora has increased five hundredfold, from 30 to around 12,000 people in 50 years. The Charles Darwin Research Station is located here .

After the census of 2010, had parroquia Puerto Ayora 11,974 inhabitants.

Puerto Ayora is the seat of the Municipalidad de Santa Cruz , which as Dirección Cantonal (regional authority ) also manages the other settlements on the island of Santa Cruz and the non- military parts of the neighboring island of Baltra . The modern administration building was built on Calle Seymour.

Most of the hotels, bars and restaurants are on Avenida Charles Darwin by the sea, which is also where the hospital, town hall ( Alcaldía ) and the modern Iglesia de San Francisco church are located. It was built in 1968. The main shopping streets with numerous retail and specialty shops are Calle Baltra and Calle Durán, a little inland . In the northern part of the city, in addition to various schools, a market hall, a sports center, a stadium, a health center ( Centro de Salud ) for outpatient treatment and two other modern churches were built.

  • Avenida Charles Darwin

  • town hall

  • Three Galápagos sea lions (Zalophus wollebaeki) on the water taxi dock

  • Calle Baltra

  • Administration building of the Dirección Cantonal

  • Iglesia de San Francisco

  • Market hall

  • health Center

Web links

Commons : Puerto Ayora  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Korneffel: Ecuador Galápagos Islands , page 376, DuMont, 2007, ISBN 3-7701-7656-1 ( limited online version (Google Books) )
  2. ↑ Resultados Censo de 2010 ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ecuador Estadístico Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (accessed February 6, 2013). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.inec.gob.ec
  3. ↑ https://www.franciscanos.ec/santa-marianita-galapagos/