Genovesa Island is in the northeast of the Galapagos archipelago. It is also known as Tower or Sea Bird Island due to large colonies of various seabirds. The island is horseshoe-shaped due to the collapse of the southern wall of its caldera. The island has an area of 14 square kilometers with a maximum altitude of 76 meters.
Genovesa Island has two visitor sites: Darwin Bay, which has a unique beach of broken coral fragments, and El Barranco. In both places, guests can observe swallow-tailed gulls (the only gulls that feed at night), red-footed boobies, Nazca boobies, pelicans, Galapagos sea lions, and red-billed tropicbirds. Along the cliffs, guests can spot a colony of great frigatebirds, small-eared owls, Galapagos mockingbirds, Galapagos doves, herons, storm petrels, iconic Darwin's finches, and more.
