Puerto Chino

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Puerto Chino

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Site Location

San Cristobal Island

Activity Level

Easy

Duration

2 hours

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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