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July 26th-August 4th, 2006 - Galapagos Islands
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Text on Ecuador and small South American
map excerpted from and Copywrite© by Donoho
Design Group, Inc.
The economic development associated with the cocoa boom at the end of the nineteenth and the first quarter of the twentieth century helped to improve and stabilize the country's administration, despite the frequent turnover in rulers -18 presidents between 1897 and 1934- and 25 presidents between 1934 and 1988. Galapagos Islands: Perhaps more so than any other
place in the world, the fauna of the Galapagos are unique. Charles Darwin's
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Ecuador:
The
coastal region and the high Andean basins of what is now Ecuador were inhabited
by Indian tribes when the first Europeans reached the area's Pacific coast in
1526. The 
The first uprising against Spanish rule took place in 1809, but only in 1822
did Ecuador gain independence as part of the Federation of Gran Colombia, from
which it withdrew in 1830. A long period of strife and instability followed,
caused mainly by struggles between conservative and liberal elements, clerical
and anticlerical movements, and large landowners and owners of small farms or plantations.
The country was run by dictators, and the army played an important role in
internal politics. During the first century of its independence, Ecuador had
changed its constitution 13 times and only a few of its presidents had managed to
serve a full four-year term.
remarkable adaptation to a hostile environment, and the subtle variations
between races of the same species living on different islands led directly to
his theory of natural selection. The theory explains how the vast multitude of
species on the Earth have evolved from a simple, singled-celled ancestor. The
theory remains the single most important one in biology. Thus we can look back
at nearly five centuries of human contact with the Galapagos and say that,
without a doubt, the most important event in the human history of the Galapagos
was Darwin's visit in 1835. Even without Darwin, though, the tale of human
contact with the Galapagos is a fascinating one, and the Enchanted Islands, as
the early mariners called them, have meant many things to many people from many
lands. To find out why click