Puerto Chino
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Puerto Chino
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SITE OVERVIEW
Enjoy a relaxing day on a white sand beach at Puerto Chino. This beach is located in the southeast of San Cristobal Island. Here you can take a walk along the coast to photograph Galápagos sea lions resting on the rocky outcrops or search for Darwin’s finches hidden inside the bushes of a mangrove forest. But watch your step for the endemic lava lizards scurrying across the trail. If you are lucky, you might just spot the Chatham mockingbird, a unique species of mockingbird found only on San Cristobal Island.
Destination | San Cristobal Island |
Activities | • Beach • Snorkeling • Hiking |
Inhabitants | No |
Type of Landing | Wet or dry landings |
Tours Allowed | Land based or cruise ship |
LOCATION
FAUNA
Blue footed booby | Sula nebouxii - ES |
Nazca booby | Sula granti |
Galapagos sea lion | Zalophus wollebaeki - E |
Great frigatebird | Fregata minor |
Swallow tailed gull | Creagrus furcatus |
San Cristobal lava lizard | Microlophus bivittatus - E |
San Cristobal mockingbird | Mimus melanotis |
Marine iguana | Amblyrhynchus cristatus - E |
Lava heron | Butorides sundevalli |
Yellow-crowned night heron | Nyctanassa violacea - ES |
King angelfish | Holacanthus passer -N |
Lava gull | Leucophaeus fuliginosus - E |
Mexican hogfish | Bodianus diplotaenia - N |
Panamic sergeant major | Abudefduf troschelii -N |
Red-billed tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus |
Razor surgeonfish | Prionurus laticlavius -N |
Least sandpiper | Calidris minutilla |
Yellowtail mullet | Mugil rammelsbergi Tschudi - N |
Yellow snapper | Lutjanus argentiventris - N |
FLORA
Cut-leafed scalesia | Scalesia incisa - E |
Galapagos lantana | Lantana peduncularis - E |
Stickleaf | Mentzelia aspera - N |
Galapagos clubleaf | Nolana galapagensis - E |
Oily pectis | Pectis tenuifolia - E |
Galapagos carpetweed | Sesuvium edmonstonei - E |
Grey matplant | Tiquilia nesiotica - E |
Galapagos spurge | Chamaesyce spp. - E |
Common carpetweed | Sesuvium portulacastrum - N |
Thread-leafed chaff flower | Alternanthera filifolia - N |
Puncture Weed | Tribulus cistoides - N |
Muyuyu | Cordia lutea - N |
Spiny Bush | Scutia spicata var. pauciflora - E |
Saltbush | Cryptocarpus pyriformis - N |
Prickly pear cactus | Opuntia cactaceae - E |
Galapagos lantana | Lantana peduncularis - E |
Galapagos shore petunia | Exodeconus miersii - E |
SITE GALLERY
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Difficulty: Easy
Landing: By bus or walking
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Landing: Dry landing
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Difficulty: Easy
Landing: Wet landing