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Human History of the Galapagos Galapagos Visited by the Incas?
While there has been some speculation that the Incan culture
made an early visit to the Islands in the 1400, many historians
attribute the possible journey of the Inca Tupac Yupanqui to the
Easter Islands, and lacking documentation, this theory is widely
dismissed. Tomas de Berlanga - Official Discoverer of the
Galapagos Fray Tomas de Berlanga, the Bishop of Panama
documented the officially first visit to the islands in 1535.
Delegated to investigate the accounts of the barbaric actions of
the conquistadors in what is now Peru, his ship, caught in a
dead calm, drifted westward in the ocean currents. With water
sources depleted, the Bishop and crew searched the new islands
for fresh water, almost entirely in vain. Frustrated, and
suffering, the men resorted to crewing the native cactus for
water. Disenchanted, they left the islands, but not without
sending word to King Carlos V of Spain, t