Galapagos Land Based tours, Diving and Yachts

The Council of the INGALA through its Committee of Qualification and Control of Residence, implements the Card of Control of Transit (TCT) in the airports of Quito, Guayaquil, Isabela, San Cristóbal and Baltra, document indispensable for all person who visits the Islands with category of Tourist or Passer-by. The TCT is part of the system of control of transit of tourists and passers-by to the islands that mainly protects in article 31 of the Special Law for the Conservation and the Sustainable Development of the Province of Galapagos and article 71 of its General regulation of Application.

LEGAL ANTECEDENTS:
Article 238 of the Political Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador, establishes that, "special regimes of territorial administration by demographic and environmental considerations will exist. After the protection of the subject areas to special regime, the rights of internal migration, work will be able to be limited inside of them or any other activity that can affect environment. The law will rule each special regime ".

Article 24 of the statutory law of Special Regime for the Conservation and Sustainable Development of the province of Galápagos determines." All person who enters or remains the province of Galapagos will have to legalize her migratory situation in accordance with this Law, its General Regulation of Application and the special Regulation of the matter." "the control of the Residence, will exert the Committee of Qualification and Control of Residence of the Council of the INGALA, of conformity to the present law and its regulation".

Article 81 of the General Regulation of the Statutory law of Special Regime for the Conservation and Sustainable Development of the province of Galapagos determines that "all person who remains irregularly in the province of Galapagos or outside one of the settled down categories of residence in this regulation and not voluntarily leaves it in fifteen days from the reason of the cause of her irregularity, will be expelled from the insular territory with the intervention of the public force and will have to cancel the Technical Secretary, a fine between two to twenty vital minimum wages, values that will be used for the financing of the activities of residence control in the Insular Region. The fine will be imposed by the Committee of Qualification and Control of Residence by means of resolution properly motivated ". "All institution public or deprived and all natural person have the obligation to collaborate in the activities of control of residence of the insular region". Categories, activities allowed and requisite for the visitors to the Galápagos Islands According to the General Regulation of application of the Statutory law of Special Regime for the Conservation and Sustainable Development of the province of Galapagos

Art. 29. – TOURISTS And PASSER-BY - In application of article 34 of the Special Law of Tourist Development, for effects of this Law, tourists is the visitors of the Patrimony of Protected Areas and the zones populated with the province of Galápagos.

Art. 30. – ACTIVITIES OF TOURISTS AND PASSER-BY
the people who travel in quality of tourists or find of transit in the province of Galapagos will not be able to exert no lucrative activity and single they will be able exceptionally to remain a maximum term of 90 days in the year in the provincial, renewable territory for a single time, in accordance with the dispositions that east effect stops will settle down in the Regulation.

Art. 31. – REQUIREMENTS FOR The TOURISTS And PASSER-BY The natural people who travel in quality of tourists or passers-by to the province of Galapagos will have:
1. To obtain the Card of Control Transit emitted by the INGALA, that will be distributed through the tourism offices, travel agencies, office of the air lines or other transportation sections of passengers; and,
2. To obtain aerial passage or marine national, personnel, of going and return between the continent and the Islands. The Tourist or Passer-by who travels to Galapagos must make in the airports of Quito and Guayaquil:
- the Registry of its data it can make in the Web site of the INGALA that will as well generate the impression to him of a form indispensable for their entrance to Galapagos
- You can register their data with their favorite travel agency or counter of the INGALA and also fill the registry form. To obtain therefore the authorization for its enter the Province of Galapagos
- Check its Luggage in SESA_SICGAL
- Get passes
- go into pre on board I embarked
- Boarding Obtaining of Authorization The Official of INGALA with the collaboration of an official of Migration of the National Police will verify the data of the tourist in Base de Datos of irregular citizens of the Province of Galápagos if some irregularity does not exist will give an entrance authorization to the Province When ARRIVING The TOURIST At The AIRPORTS FROM CRISTOBAL, BALTRA And ISABELA The TOURIST MADE:
- handle Authorization and registry of the code of the Form
- handle of the Form to the png
- Revision of Luggage in SESA_SICGAL (if it has not been reviewed in Quito or Guayaquil)

WHEN THE TOURIST LEAVES THE GALAPAGOS PROVINCE MUST MAKE:
- Outgoing record of the tourist
- show Card of Control of Transito (TCT)
- Handle detachable form
- register the identification (bar code) In the last years to him the migratory flow to Galápagos has been constituted in one of the main problems that attempt against the fragility of this unique ecosystem in the world. You Can help us to control the migration to Galápagos, fulfilling the requirements that the Law demands to enter the islands.