Representativeness
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Marine Environment Protection Committee - Resolution MEPC.135(53) - Designation of the Galapagos Archipelago as a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area - (Adopted on 22 July 2005) - Annex 1 - Description of the Galapagos Archpelago Particularly Sensitive Sea Area - 2 Significance of the area - Representativeness

Representativeness

  2.3 Around Galapagos there are cold ocean currents, upwelling zones, and water masses of diverse origin, all of them forming a complex system containing bio-elements from tropical and subtropical regions of South America and from the Indo-Pacific biotic region; the islands are thus cordoned off genetically, creating an area of biogeographical diversification. Galapagos is acknowledged as showing biogeographical affinities not only with the tropical and subtropical South American mainland, but also with representative elements of the Peru-Chile and western Pacific biogeographical regions.

Parent topic: 2 Significance of the area
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