The incident occurred in one of the two craters that make up the Los Hemelos volcanic group, one of the tourist attractions on Santa Cruz Island, the most populated island in the Galapagos archipelago, according to a statement from the local administration of the national park.
“The details of the fall are not yet known, but thanks to the rapid intervention of rescuers trained for this type of situation, the child was able to surface from the bottom of the crater, located about 100 meters deep. meters,” explained the Galapagos National Park.
A child with head injuries is currently under the supervision of doctors at the hospital in the city of Puerto Ayora, the largest in the entire archipelago.
The Galapagos archipelago, named for the Galapagos tortoises that live here, consists of 13 main volcanic islands, 6 small islands, and 107 alluvial rocks and areas. They are located at a distance of about 1000 kilometers from the continental coast of Ecuador. In 1978, the archipelago was recognized as a natural heritage of humanity. Galapagos is currently the second largest marine reserve in the world. It was here that Charles Darwin conducted his research, after which he began to create an evolutionary theory of the origin of species.
