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Where is located Easter Island?


Easter Island is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands. It is 3,600 km (2,237 miles) west of continental Chile and 2,075 km (1,290 miles) east of Pitcairn (Sala y Gomez 415 kilometres to the east is closer but uninhabited).

It has a latitude close to that of Caldera, Chile, an area of 163.6 km² (63 sq. miles), and a maximum altitude of 507 metres. There are three Rano (freshwater Crater lakes) at Rano Kau, Rano Raraku and Rano Aroi near the summit of Terevaka, but no permanent streams or rivers.

Why Rapa Nui?
On Easter Sunday, 1722 Easter Island was found and named by its first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who was searching for Davi's island. The island's official Spanish name, Isla de Pascua, is Spanish for "Easter Island".

The current Polynesian name of the island, Rapa Nui or "Big Rapa", was coined by labor immigrants from Rapa in the Bass Islands, who likened it to their home island in the aftermath of the Peruvian slave deportations in the 1870s.However, Thor Heyerdahl has claimed that the naming would have been the opposite, Rapa being the original name of Easter Island and Rapa Iti named by its refugees.

There are several options for the "original" Polynesian name for Easter Island. Including Te pito o te henua, or the "The Navel of the World" due to its isolation. Legends claim that the island was first named as Te pito o te kainga a Hau Maka, or the "Little piece of land of Hau Maka"


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Attractions of Easter Island

Tahai
This attraction is an old sanctuary. Its archaeological interest is combined with its three "Ahu", one on the north, other on the south, and the last one in the center. In Tahai you can find the archaeological
vestiges of Williams Mulloy, in the southern Ahu, meanwhile in the
northern moai you will see the white coral eyes. In the place is
celebrate the Tapati Rapa Nui.
Rano Kau Volcano
The volcano is located in the south of the island, with an interior lagoon
of 1 kilometer diameter and 280 meters depth. It has a beautiful
vegetation with juncos ands totora. It name means "wide volcano".
Orongo
This attraction was a religious town to celebrate the transition from winter
to summer time. Orongo means "messenger place" because of the migratory birds.
Tapati Rapa Nui
There is a party celebrated in the island during February, to remaind all the ancient traditions.
Rapa Nui National Park
Easter Island was born thanks to the Maunga Terevaca, Poike and Rano Kau volcanoes, and it has a singular flora with 34 species and a unique
fauna, in which you can find the Manutara seagull. The island was part
of Chile in 1888, as a military base.It has a beautiful handmade
crafts, the giant moais (volcanic rokc statues) and white sands beaches
like Anakena, Perousse and Ovahe. The Easter Island National Park is
administrated by the CONAF and it's an important archaeological
interest zone.
Ahu Akahanga
This attraction is the king Hotu Matua tomb, with 81 meters of extention and 3,25 meters wide. The plataform has 13 moais, from 5 to 7 meters heigh and decarate it with red stones. Nearby the beach, there is a 2 meters moai that was rob by the French sailors.
Anakena Beach
The beach is characterized by its warm waters and white sands. Also, there are the ahu Ature Huki and Nau Nau. It has an incredible archaeological value because it was the first ancient city of the island, founded by the first king of the island Ariki Hotu Matua.
Rano Raraku Volcano
The volcano has an important archaological value, because it has more than 300 monuments id the "Moai Road". It's 100 meters heigh, with an
interior lagoon of 50 meters depth.
Ahu Te Pito Kura
The Ahu has the biggest moai of the island, with 11 meters heigh. The
attraction is ideal to practice ecotourism, cultural activities and
adventure tourism.
Te Pito o Te Henua
There is a huge round rock, representing the "world navel" to the island inhabitants. "Pito" means uterus, center and navel, meanwhile “henua” means earth, territory and universe.
Tongariki
An ancient cementery with 200 meters long and 15 statues. It is the most important in Rapa Nui and it was restored between 1995 and 1996 by Chilean archaeologists, after its destruction by a tsunami in 1960.
There are moais and pukao surround it. Behind it, there is the Hanga Hotu Iti bay.

Some islands in Chile

Chile is a long and narrow border surrounded by the Andes Mountains by the East and the Pacific Ocean by the West. Because of the large
coast, it has many islands, some little and others big, some of them
inhabited with people and other only inhabited with animals like Seals,
Sea lions or Penguins and virgin nature.

One of the most important island is Easter Island, located 3.800 km. (2.360 mi.) approx. to the Chilean central coast. It has a very particular culture, beautiful dances and flora and fauna typically of the oceanic zone. One of the main attractions are the "Moais", giant human figures made of stone that represent the adorations to their ancestors.

Another island located near the coast in central Chile is Robinson Crusoe Island that is 2 hours and a half of distance going by plane and is in the Juan Fernandez's Archipelago. It has an exuberant beauty in the flora and has a very special kind of animals and birds, some of them uniques in the world. Between the activities that you can do in the island is the fishing and diving, the sea offers a real submarine paradise.

Going to the south in the 10th Region is located Chiloé Island, is the second
biggest island in Latin America after Tierra del Fuego (also in Chile).
The people that live there has a culture full of traditions and religious devotions. One of the most attractions in the island are the typical houses called Palafitos, they were built over the water with a base of big wooden sticks. It has also very beautiful Churches made only of wood and maintained through the years in good conditions by the people of the island, all of them are declared National Monument
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