San Cristobal
Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
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About San Cristobal
San Cristobal is the easternmost island within the Galápagos archipelago in addition to one of the oldest geologically. It is administratively a part of San Cristobal Canton, Ecuador. Its Spanish call "San Cristobal" comes from the patron saint of seafarers, St. Christopher. San Cristobal Island consists of 3 or 4 fused volcanoes, all extinct. It is home to the oldest permanent agreement of the islands and is the island wherein Darwin first went ashore in 1835.
A small lake referred to as El Junco is the handiest source of clean water inside the islands. The availability of fresh water is what caused the early agreement of San Cristobal. A penal colony turned into built on San Cristobal Island in 1880 for prisoners from mainland Ecuador. This later became a army base for Ecuador and export center for the island's products including sugar, coffee, cassava, farm animals, fish and lime. In April 1888 USS Albatross, a Navy-manned studies vessel assigned to the US Fish Commission, made landfall at an abandoned agreement on Charles Island.
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17 Jan 2024
Know Everything about the Christmas Capital of the Philippines - San Fernando The City of San Fernando is the capital of Pampanga province and is also popularly known as the ‘Christmas Capital of the Philippines’. Every year, there is a Giant Lantern Festival that is organized over here from December 16 to 24 in which different communities participate against each other by building different types of lamps and commemorating it in a superb show of light and music. The festival is a popular attraction during the nine days of Christmas as people pour in large numbers to witness the spectacle. The initial tradition of the festival began somewhere around 1908 but the present version of it evolved during the 1930s when electricity made its way into the city. However, the motto of the festival is unity among its different neighbourhoods through different lanterns. Some other facts related to the Giant Lantern Festival and the city, in particular, are also discussed here for a general understanding.
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