See Photos of the Most Crowded Island on Earth
It's a two-hour boat ride from Cartagena to an island the size of two soccer fields, where there are no roads and families live in close quarters.
When photographer Charlie Cordero first learned of Santa Cruz Del Islote, a tiny, densely populated island a two-hour boat ride off the coast of Colombia from Cartagena, he was captivated.
People who find a way to live in difficult environmental conditions have always fascinated him, and Santa Cruz Del Islote immediately stuck out. On the island, there is limited access to water, food, and electricity, but 45 families still eke out a living in 97 houses on 12,000 square yards of land. That’s around four times as dense as the population of Manhattan.
“All we knew about this place was that it was an offshore island, little-known and far away, where for a long time its inhabitants had no interest in
