Puerto Grande

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Puerto Grande

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Site Location

San Cristobal Island

Activity Level

Easy

Duration

2 hours

SITE OVERVIEW

Puerto Grande is a well-protected little cove with a beautiful white sand beach suitable for swimming, birdwatching, or stretching your legs with a walk along the scenic coastline. Hermit crabs are a very common sight here, covering the area near the lagoons behind the beach. The cove is also a blue-footed booby feeding area. Occasionally you can find a sea lion or two lazily resting on the beach, making for a picture-perfect moment.

Destination San Cristobal Island
Activities • Beach
• Snorkeling
• Camping
Inhabitants No
Type of Landing Wet landing
Tours Allowed Land based

LOCATION

FAUNA

Brown pelican Pelecanus occidentalis - ES
Ruddy turnstone Arenaria interpres
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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