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San Cristóbal Island
Sign in to saveAlso known as San Cristobal Island, Chatham, San Cristobal, San Cristóbal, S. Cristobal, S. Cristóbal, San Cristóbal I., S. Cristóbal Island
island in the Galápagos archipelago
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 165 inbound references to San Cristóbal Island, and connects out to Fregata, Spanish and Ecuador.
The entry is geolocated on the map.
It sits within the topics Former penal colonies, Important Bird Areas of the Galápagos Islands and Islands of the Galápagos Islands.
Vinony links it to 36 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Location
- Galápagos Islands , Ecuador
- Archipelago
- Galápagos Islands
- Area
- 558 km (215 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 713 m (2339 ft)
- Highest point
- Cerro San Joaquin
- Population
- 6,000
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Galapagos Islands
- Named after
- John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham
- Country
- Ecuador
- Capital
- Puerto Baquerizo Moreno
- Population
- 5500
- Area
- 547
- Elevation
- 759
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Image
- Paisaje en Punta Pitt, isla de San Cristóbal, islas Galápagos, Ecuador, 2015-07-24, DD 76.JPG
- Width
- 17
- Length
- 49
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- Commons category
- San Cristóbal (Galápagos)
- located in/on physical feature
- Galapagos Islands
- different from
- San Cristóbal
- Commons gallery
- San Cristóbal (Galápagos)
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Encyclopedic overview
Landscape in Punta Pitt, San Cristóbal Island. Topographic map Young sea lion (Zalophus californianus wollebaeki), Punta Pitt.
San Cristóbal Island (Spanish: Isla San Cristóbal), also known as Chatham Island, is the easternmost island in the Galápagos archipelago, as well as one of the oldest geologically. It is administratively part of San Cristóbal Canton, Ecuador.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “San Cristóbal Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.