Santa Fé is the eleventh biggest island of the Galapagos. It covers 9.3 square miles and rises to 850 feet. Santa Fé is a Spanish city. It is also (rarely) called Barrington, named by the English after Admiral Samuel Barrington. It is comprised a single volcano, which is extinct.
Santa Fé is notable for the size of its giant prickly pear cactus which are truly the size of trees, reaching over 20 feet high. These are the biggest giant cactus in the Galapagos. The biggest specimen fell down in 2000, victim of the El Niño whose heavy rainfall weakened the trunk. Also notable are the land iguanas which are much bigger than elsewhere in the Galapagos. They are also coloured khaki brown, like army camouflage, so that one particularly large individual acquired a nickname: "The General."
Santa
Fé Visitor Site
Santa Fé beach and trail
