Category: History & Culture

History & Culture

 

Most Galápagos content focuses entirely on wildlife. That skips a genuinely fascinating part of the story: the human history layered underneath it. San Cristóbal’s highlands hold the ruins of a 19th-century sugar empire. Manuel J. Cobos built it, and his own workers eventually killed him. Descendants of the highland families still farm that same land today. This category explores that history in depth, giving real context to places most tours only pass through.