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Land surface: 14 km2
Elevation: 75 m
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Genovesa island is located in the northeast portion of the Archipelago, The island is an outpost for many seabirds as Española is in the south. Interestingly, there are no land reptiles on Genovesa, only very small marine iguanas. This is attributed to the direction of the ocean currents, which evidently wouldn´t have carried the terrestral animals here.
The visitors sites are: Darwin bay and Prince Philip´s steps.
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| Nesting Site: Great Frigates |
Fauna
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Flora
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- Swallow – tailed gulls
- Red-footed boobies
- Masked boobies
- Great frigates
- Lava herons
- Night herons
- Sea lions
- Gulls
- Storm petrels
- Lava gulls
- Fiddler crabs
- Galapagos Dove
- Sharp-beaked ground finches (Vampire finches)
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- Salt bushes
- Opuntia cacti
- Croton scouleri shrubs
- Palo santo
- Mangroves
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