It is located on the equator, and the islands that make it up are distributed on both hemispheres.
The area of the archipelago is 8010 square kilometers, and includes 13 islands larger than ten square kilometers, 19 larger than a few square kilometers, as well as many islets and coral reefs - there are 234 in total.
The largest of these is Isabela, with an area of 4588 square kilometers, making it one of the five largest islands in the archipelago. The other four are: Santa Cruz, Fernandina, Santiago and San Cristobal - these five islands cover 93.2% of the total area of the archipelago.
