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Big Things in Little Packages 11

Marine iguanas sun themselves on Isla Fernandina. The Galápagos Islands are considered a national treasure.

mangrove forest and to Ecuador’s largest city, Guayaquil. The coast is also home to a large number of shrimp farms. Shrimp farms are not the only farms found along Ecuador’s coast. The rich soils of the Costa produce great crops of papaya, passion fruit, melon, watermelon, and mango. The Costa is also home to huge banana, coffee, cacao , African palm, and rice plantations.