Puerto Ayora

Province

Puerto Ayora has approximately 15,000 inhabitants of the largest and therefore most important place in the Galapagos Islands.

The place is located on the second largest and most populous island of Santa Cruz in the Galapagos Islands. Since the 1957 UNESCO drafted a conservation plan for the islands, the population of Puerto Ayora has verfünfhundertfacht, within 50 years from 30 to 15,000 people. Here is the Charles Darwin Research Station.

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

Puerto Ayora is the seat of municipalidad de Santa Cruz, which still includes a regional authority also the other settlements on the island of Santa Cruz and the non- military use portions of the neighboring island of Baltra.