 At the Galapagos Triple Junction, the Pacific Plate, Cocos Plate, and Nazca Plate meet incompletely, forming two counter-rotating microplates at the junction of the Cocos-Nazca, Pacific-Cocos, and Pacific-Nazca spreading ridges.The entire Galapagos Microplate, which covers an area of 13,000 km2, was formed to accommodate the motions of three major moving plates.Before the formation of the Galapagos Microplate, the Galapagos Triple Junction was a conventional ridge-ridge-ridge junction.