Bartolome and Santiago Islands
The very first visitors to Galápagos were sailors from other countries, mostly English speaking countries. They got to the Islands in different eras and gave different names to them which is why some islands have different and many names. Ecuador took possession of the Islands in 1832, when nobody wanted to take the Islands due to the difficulty to live in this place (mostly because there was no fresh water).
In 1892, the Ecuadorian government decided to change the names of the islands, and they became the Archipelago de Colon. And every Island that used to have an English name now has a Spanish name.
Why Bartolome? Bartolome de Las Casas was an early Spanish explorer who got to Esmeraldas, an Ecuadorian province in 1832. San Salvador is the official name of the island we visited in the afternoon, and it’s the name of the first island Columbus set foot on when he came to the Americas.
We enjoyed both islands at their most during our last day in the Galápagos.
The very first visitors to Galápagos were sailors from other countries, mostly English speaking countries. They got to the Islands in different eras and gave different names to them which is why some islands have different and many names. Ecuador took possession of the Islands in 1832, when nobody wanted to take the Islands due to the difficulty to live in this place (mostly because there was no fresh water).
In 1892, the Ecuadorian government decided to change the names of the islands, and they became the Archipelago de Colon. And every Island that used to have an English name now has a Spanish name.
Why Bartolome? Bartolome de Las Casas was an early Spanish explorer who got to Esmeraldas, an Ecuadorian province in 1832. San Salvador is the official name of the island we visited in the afternoon, and it’s the name of the first island Columbus set foot on when he came to the Americas.
We enjoyed both islands at their most during our last day in the Galápagos.
