Presentation

Easter Island named by your inhabitants since Rapa Nui or Tepito O Te Henua, is the most remote inhabited island of the world. Curiously, one of the mysteries without resolving is the own name of the island, between the traditional versions they tell themselves “Te Pito O Te Henua" (the navel of the world) or "Te Pito O Te Kainga” (the counterfoil), and "Kuri Ki Te Rangi” (eyes that look at the sky). The current islanders adopted the name Rapa Nui for his island and culture. It was baptized since it Rapa Nui (Big Island) for the sailors who were furrowing these zone of the pacific one at the end of the century xix, for your seemed one with it Rapa Iti (Girl Island), located to approximately 5.000 km in the western part. The official name, it was given by the Dutch sailors who re-discovered it on a Sunday of Pascua of resurrection, on April 5, 1722.

It does approximately three thousand years; navigators proceeding from the Asian southeast were in the door of access to the Polynesia, in Tonga and Samoa. From this moment, and throughout the following thousand years in his displacement eastward, they developed what knows as Culture Polynesia Ancestral shared by hundreds of groups seated in a multiplicity of islands that present different environmental conditions and, in consequence, different forms of adjustment that with the time generated a wide variety of social and cultural expressions.

In it there developed one of the most surprising cultures comparably alone to the big megalithic cultures, the Egyptian, Maya or Inca, in extreme conditions of isolation. The manifestations most known about the historical cultural development Rapanui are your famous monolithic sculptures (moai), the megalithic altars (ahu) and a type of hieroglyphic writing (Rongo Rongo) that still refuses to be deciphered, close to advanced knowledge of engineering and astronomy. Though the advances achieved in the island seem to be impossible, your roots can be recognized polynesic. These achievements were the result of a complex process, where the special conditions of the environment conjugated with a society stratified, orientated to the control of territories across the competition by the prestige, with chiefs of semi-divine character, with the support of an ideology centred on the worship to the ancestors, and on the basis of an intensive production of food.

Actually, the real "mystery" of the island is not so much that of the moai and the technologies for your transport, which is a topic of present engineering in many cultures of the world, but the paradoxical thing that turns out to be the emergence of a complex culture in such a condition of isolation. Normally, the High Cultures or Civilizations arise and develop in favorable conditions for the food production, where a relatively big population meets in easy contact other populations, of whose exchanges of ideas and products will arise the new advances. The knowledge that we have of what happened in the island escapes of the norm.

On the other hand, your strategic location turns her into the door of commercial access towards the countries of Asia and is an important center for scientific investigations specially of archaeological and anthropologic type.

General Precedents.

Location - Geography - Climate - Population - Languaje - Mint - Flora and Fauna

Easter Island belongs to the Chilean territory from 1888 on the V Region of Valparaiso depends administratively.

Location

Located in the middle of the pacific south ocean, to 3.700 kilometers of the coast of Chile opposite to the region III, specifically opposite to Boiler in the 27º 09' of south latitude and the 109º 27' of length west. It is the oriental vertex of the gigantic archipelago of the Polynesia, forms a part of the triangle polinésico with Hawaii in the northern part, New Zealand in the western part and French Polynesia in the center. To 4.600 Km from Tahiti and to 7.000 Km from New Zealand. Rapa Nui is in extreme conditions of isolation, in the point most removed from any another place filled with the planet, being the most nearby populated land Pitcairn's island, to 2.000 km to the southwest.

Geography

The 166 km2 of your exiguous triangular surface is shaped by the summit of a great volcanic cone that gets up approximately three thousand meters from the oceanic bed. The Origin of the Easter Island is a volcanic recent (Plio-Pleistocene) and your structure is dominated by three big volcanoes, the Maunga Terevaka (511 msnm), the Poike (370 msnm) and the Rano Kau (400 msnm) and about 70 other minor craters of type parasite between that it is necessary to mention the Rano Raraku, the Puna Pau, the Maunga Orito and the Rano Aroi. The soils of the island are of volcanic origin and appear slightly waved with steep forts in some of the edges that give to the sea, specially in the margins of the volcanoes Rano Kao and Poike. It presents altitudes that go from the 0 to 511 m. That is the summit of the volcano Maunga Terevaka.

The island does not have permanent riverbeds of water, only some gullies have sporadic runoffs depending on the abundance and torrential on the rainfalls. Three lacustrine bodies exist in the craters of Rano Aroi, Rano Raraku and Rano Kao. Nevertheless, it presents a good availability of underground waters. The water shows near the coast in a series of wells, which often contain water lightly salt for your nearness to the sea.

In view of this origin, in the island there abounds the whole variety of volcanic stones, from the soft tufa that was in use for the moai, which only one finds in Rano Raraku, the red dross of the cylinders (pukao) on that they put as hats on some of the statues, the white and soft traquita, spending for the hardest basalt used in the walls of the ahu or the thin polished adzes (toki), up to the crystalline obsidian, the volcanic black glass of the sharp missiles or knives enmangados (mataa).

Climate

The climate is subtropical oceanic with sudden storms. It presents rains all the year round with 1.140 mm. As annual average, being the most rainy May and the driest September. The temperature fluctuates between 9ºC in winter and 28ºC in summer with an annual average of dampness of 77 %. Two big stations are identified: summer and winter, each one with your inter station: spring and autumn.
- The coldest month is an August of 14ºC to 17ºC during the day.
- The warmest month is a February of 24ºC to 28ºC during the day.
- The most rainy month of the year is A May.

The temperature of the water of the sea changes between 18ºC and 25ºC.

Population

The population of the island for 1999, according to the official census, was reaching 3460 inhabitants, now in the present year 2008 it has 4500 inhabitants.

Languaje

The official languages are the Spanish and the rapanui. In addition, for being a highly tourist zone the major segment of your inhabitants they handle in addition the French, Germany, Chinese, between others.

Mint

Nowadays is in use the Chilean peso, though also they work with the dollar and the Euro, for the tourist topic, in turn still the barter continues being in use as form of payment, the equal one like it was made by them your ancestors.

Flora and Fauna

Flora

In spite of his subtropical climate and, unlike other islands polynesic, the Easter Island presents a minimal ecological complexity and a great poverty in your diversity floristic. 90 % of the surface of the island is a dry sheet with a herbaceous abundant stratum composed for the most part for gramíneas introduced, between that occasional bushes are inserted and forest with spice also exotic.

Recent studies paleobotanists have demonstrated that in the past there existed in the island wooded masses of importance, extensive bushes and meadows of pastures and ferns. There have been identified 212 species of plants (extinct and current), of which 46 are native and 166 introduced ones.

Such arboreal extinct species as
Toromiro (Sophora toromiro)
Palm of pascua (Paschalococcus disperta)
Peralillo (Coprosma Sp.).

16 species of ferns, some acquaintances vulgarly like "Nehe Nehe" (Asplenium adiantoides, A. obtusatum, Doodia paschalis y Microlepia strigosa), Matu'a Pu'a (Polypodium scolopendria), "Tia Pito" (Ophioglossum coriaceum y O. reticulatum) y "Atua" (Vittaria elongata) And 8 more without names vernacular names of the kinds Thelypteris, Diplazium, Elaphoglossum, Polystichum, Davallia y Psilotum.

Other species of interest with names scientist and pascuense:

Fauna

The diversity of vertebrates is very poor. In mammals only there exist such introduced species as:
Mice (Rattus rattus)
Guarenes (Rattus norvegicus)
Lauchas (Card game musculus)

The same thing happens with terrestrial birds between which we find
Hen (moa)
doves (Columba livia)
sparrows (Passer domesticus)
tiuques (Milvago chimango)
partridge (Nothoprocta perdicaria)
diuca (Diuca diuca)

In case of the terrestrial reptiles two autochthonous species exist:
Moko uru-uru kahu (Lepidodactylus lugubris)
Moko Uriuri (Ablepharus boutoni)

In the sea the wealth is different, being relied on by a subtropical sea by corals where other animals live numerous. The fish described for the Easter Island are 111 species of which 97 are coastal species. The better represented families are:
Labridae (13 sp)
Muraenidae (7 sp)
Chaetodontidae (7 sp)
Holocentridae (6 sp)

It is necessary to mention also the lobster of Easter, called locally Hakarana very estimated by your size and flavor.
Due to the isolation of It Rapa Nui, approximately 25 % of the fish is endemic; this is, that are not in any other place of the world.
In addition there exist 11 species of marine birds that, together with living habitually in the island, nest in it. Some of these birds as:

On the other hand the coasts are visited by some such marine occasional reptiles as:
Tortoise tortoise-shell (Eretmochelys imbricata)
Green tortoise (Chelonia mydas and Ch. Japonica)
Viper of sea (Pelamys platurus)

There exist in addition a few small own and exclusive snails of land of the Polynesia that, surely, were travelling from stowaways together with the navigators when these were transporting plants with land.

History / Chronology

History

According to the current studies, the island was discovered 1.500 years ago approximately. But, it is with the migration polinesica of the ariki Hotu Matu'a that begins the history of this island in the century IX or a bit later. This group polinésico (with test(proof) of analysis ADN) installs and develops to itself, throughout the centuries, a worship of the death with the statues MOAI, the only worship in the world reserved for the chiefs of tribes and clans with the aim to protect fertility and fecundity in this society of type feodal. In spite of the scanty resources of sweet water and the climatic variations, the adjustment to the environment is done progressively with the development of the agriculture and fishing arranged according to the cycle of the phases of the moon, of the equinoxes and solstices and also concerning the "tapu". In the century XVII, a population is estimated of more than 10.000 inhabitants; the carved one of the statues turns gigantic (more of 8m, 10m 12m … up to them 22m for the biggest moai not finished of the Rano Raraku). The accidents are numerous and the sacred act of esculture, honourable act of spirituality, it transforms little by little in an essentially material act; the society fragilizada leads the people to the revolt. According to the archeologists, it is about 1670, 1680 that the wars between clans begin. The royalty loses its political and economic power for the profit of the warlike so called chiefs matato'a. The above mentioned untie blood and fire incendiary making fall down to the Moai. Since then, the priests of the solar religion organize concerning the second representative of the god Make Make: the bird frigate, with rites and annual ceremony of the "Tangata Manu", man bird, allowing to deliver political, economic and spiritual power, of alternated way, with the search of the first egg of frigate in the sector of Orongo and of the islands opposite to the Rano Kau. These ceremonies continue up to the evangelización for the missionaries of Tahiti, in 1868.

Discovery of the island for the European navigators

In 1722, the history of the island enters the knowledge of the Western ones with the Dutch expedition led by Jacob Roggeveen. They come later: the Spanish in 1770, the captain Cook in 1774, the Perousse in 1786.These diverse expeditions have a scientific orientation of knowledge of the islands of the Pacific; nevertheless, the entry to the European world modifies the ancient culture progressively.

But, it is an overcoat, in the century XIX, which worsens the destruction of this only culture with kidnappings, diseases brought by the navigators of the old world, the slavery towards Peru and the work forced in the plantations of Tahiti. The despicable one Dutrou Bornier is proclaimed a French king of the Island of Easter in 1872; since then, the missionaries are expelled and it is only in 1888 that the captain Policarpo Toro annexes the island to Chile.

Little by little, bad treatments of the ranchers of sheeps and managers of this territory drive to debilitating more and more this people that becomes poor and wretched culturally.In 1955, the island is reborn culturally thanks to the Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl and the archeologist William Mulloy. The archaeological restorations begin. This small territory is opened for the world with the first flight from Chile with the pilot Roberto Parrague.

In 1965 there is the creation of the first municipality and, in 1967; the Lan Chile's first commercial flights begin with the inauguration of the airport Mataveri.At the end of the sixties, "Linbland Explorer" is the first agency of tourism. It Easter Island enters the modernity with more than 60.000 tourists in the year 2007. Now, It Easter Island needs a firm structure with a control of the tourist flow and a protection of the patrimony of so much value.

Chronology

600: Arrival of the first inhabitants of Rapa Nui from the islands marquises.

713: Construction of the ahu Tahai, the most ancient of the island.

1000: It begins the period of summit of the megalithic architecture of Rapa Nui.

1680: A period of conflicts begins between the lineages rapanui, that he leads to the destruction of great part) of the moai.

1687: The pirate English Edward Davis spies a mountainous island to the 27 º 20 ' south latitude; to 500 leagues to the west of Copiapo

1722: The Dutch traveler Jacob Roggeveen discovers an island to 2.700 miles of the coasts of chili. The company is carried out the day of Pascua of resurrection; commemoration that gave the name to the new find.

1770: The Spanish wreath takes possession of the island, with the intention of joining Juan Fernandez and Chiloe, seize another strategic point of Spain in the pacific one

1774: The captain English James Cook visited the island. It is impressed by your monuments and by the poverty of your inhabitants

1782: It drifts Molina includes in his compendium of the geographical natural and civil history of the kingdom of chili, to Easter Island as part of the national territory.

1786: Brief expedition of the French count Jean-Francois Galup, count of the Perousse.

1862: A flotilla of slave-trading ships comes to the island with the intention of capturing native to lead them as slaves to working to the guaneras of the coast of Peru. Thanks to the intervention of the French government and of the English before the Peruvian, they give themselves orders to repatriate the islanders that had not succumbed to the smallpox and the tuberculosis. Approximately fifteen returned, but lamentably they brought I obtain the smallpox, which contagion was lethal for the population of the island.

1864: It comes to it Rapa Nui the Franciscan mission of the sacred hearts of picpus, congregation to which the evangelizing apostle concerned Joseph Eugene Eyraud

1868: Arrival of the nose abtao, the first Chilean nose that moored in Easter Islan

1870: Arrival of the corvette O’Higgins. Raising of the first national plane of Rapa Nui. Study of flora, fauna and customs of your inhabitants

1870: The French adventurer comes to the island Dutroux-Bornier who seeks to get hold of the lands for your exploitation. His associate Tahitian John Brander recruits workers for your plantations in other islands, remaining only 175 Rapa Nui as workforce.

1886-1887: For order of the president of the republic José Manuel Balmaceda (1840- 1891), authorizes the legal processing to annex Easter Island to the Chilean territory.

1888-1895: One gives beginning to the phase of settling of Rapa Nui. The island transforms in an enormous estate ovejera, the islanders accustomed to the fishing, happen to be tenants of the foreign companies who exploit the island.

1888: The captain of corvette and commander of the nose angamos, polywrist stolen bull, was the manager of taking possession of Rapa Nui for the government of Chili.

1915: Due to the mistreatment of which they were been object the islanders; the Chilean government creates a commission to study the problems of the native population. The culture of the maize interfered with good results

1917: The island was put under the dependence of the direction of the maritime territory of Valparaiso and submitted to the authority and naval laws

1936: One reaches an agreement with the exploitative company, which resigned all your rights on it Rapa Nui; in exchange the government delivered it to them in lease for 20 years, with a series of obligations as: to establish communications radiotelephonic, maritime transport, to repair the school and the church

1955: One gives beginning to an archaeological systematic investigation of Rapa Nui, at the expense of the archeologist Thor Heyerdahl.

1965: The Easter Island happens to be a department of it Vth region.

1975: The Easter Island is incorporated as province of it Vth region.

1976: The name changes of “Park Easter Island “for " National Park Rapa Nui " which occupies nowadays a surface of 7.130 hectares, approximately 43 % of the total surface of the island.

1995: The national park Rapa Nui is declared world patrimony by UNESCO, in the category of “cultural landscape”.

Culture/Tradition

Languaje - Religion - Legend - Social organization - Politics - Festivities - Fishing - Art - Gastronomy

Undoubtedly, the excellent characteristic of the culture rapanui are the statues moai, dedicated in memory of the ancient chiefs and that presidiaban from your altar, the ahu all the activities of the settlements constructed concerning the platform and near a bay. Esta estatuaria predominante logró eclipsar otros elementos de la cultura rapanui tal como: los petroglifos, los tatuajes tatoo, las pinturas corporales Takona, el idioma, la música, la danza, la gastronomía y la escritura Rongo- Rongo, una de las últimas escrituras.

Language:

His native language is Rapa Nui, but also they speak the Spanish. For influences of the tourism, great part of the population the English and French speaks, and a small quantity the certified guides speak also Germany, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, overcoat.

Religion:

The people Rapanui is a culture that organizes your daily life concerning your spiritual and religious beliefs; of made, great report of history of the this Easter Island determined by the evolution of the diverse religious worships that compose the spiritual tradition Rapanui.

In principle, the human beings have a body (Hakari) and a soul (Kuhane). According to the tradition, the soul survives the body and is capable of acquiring any form, humanizes or animal, but your classic expression is that of a skeleton, as she turns out to be represented in the moai Kava Kava.

The worship of the ancestors, represented in statues every time major, demanded a great quantity of workforce in Rano Raraku's quarries for the production of the moai and of pukaos (hairdos(toilets) of red dross that were taking place in Puna Pau's quarry) and in the systems of transport, with what there diminished obviously the workforce destined for the agricultural production and for the fishing, with what there took place a great famine and a revolution that ended with the commanding order, stopping sharply the work in the quarries and beginning fights between clans, falling down and there being destroyed mutually the moai (to prevent the ancestors from penetrating manna to the enemies), until none stayed in foot. This crisis happened between the XVIth and XVIIIth century. The fights decimated the population and the hunger motivated the appearance of the cannibalism.
When it stopped the practice of the worship of the forbears and the moai they all were the broken ones and for the soils, there began a new religion, the worship of the Man Bird or "Tangata Manu".

This worship had your center in Orongo's ceremonial village (close to the crater of the volcano Rano Kao) and it was consisting basically of that a representative of every family was competing for obtained the first egg of the Manutara guli rapanui (Sterna lunata), which was doing that the chief of the caste of the winner was undressed in the title of Tangata Manu, which was transferring a great power. The title lasted the whole year. For the collection of the egg, the competitors had to lower abrupt cliffs (from Orongo up to the sea), to cross to I swim towards the islands of Motu Iti and Motu Nui (where they were sheltering the Manutara), to steal the first egg, to return to I swim and to raise the cliffs without breaking his precious testimony. Many people were dying on having fallen over a precipice in the cliffs or on having been attacked by sharks during the swimming towards and from the islands.

The religious rites begin in the moment of the birth with the cut of the umbilical cord, and they were continuing in the first years of infancy with the first court of hair and the position of the first taparrabo; later, at the age of eight, the children were receiving the first tattoo, which they were taking in the legs.
Once overcome the stage of the infancy, the young men were submitted to the rites that were marking your initiation in the adulthood; the principal one of them was the celebration of the puberty, which was consisting of the imprisonment several months, of children and girls rapanui of the small island of motorcycle Nui, which was opposite to Orongo's ceremonial village. In this island, the young men were receiving instruction in diverse fields of the culture Rapanui: the trades, the traditions, the art of the war; in this species of school, in addition, the young men were practicing games of skill and physical skills that were serving the instructing teachers to select the most suitable: the chosen ones were happening to develop handcrafted vital specialities inside the society rapanui: the tattoos, the writing, the sculpture and the hewn stone.

As well as the religious rites were beginning from the moment of the birth, which had relation with the death also were of great importance and transcendency for the people pascuense; the principal reason of it, it takes root in that the worship to the forbears is one of the principal characteristics of the society rapanui. Though the funeral practices rapanui were not including the mummification of the deceased, yes they developed a particular modality to treat to the corpses of the powerful members of the diverse lineages. This modality was consisting of wrapping the bodies of the dead men in vegetable fabrics, of then exposing them outdoors inside the ahu of every lineage; as soon as the body was decomposing, the bones of the deceased were washed and deposited in a funeral chamber (a species of mausoleum of the Ure) that was situated in the same ahu. The purpose of this action it was that the soul of the deceased could meet the souls of his ancestors, as soon as it was leaving the earthly world. Finally, the members of the lineage were resembling the deceased in the ceremonial one of the Paina, which was an event of great social relevancy: during this ritual, the kinsmen of the deceased were raising opposite to the ahu, a great effigy formed of sticks and fabrics, which were representing the image of the remembered ancestor.

Legend:

One of the most interesting versions of the legends of origin, it is in a manuscript rapanui of beginning of the present century, which reproduces with the western grafia the traditions of Prong Ploughs Hoa.In it there are described by great detail Hotu Matua's history and the circumstances that motivated the item from your ancient land: Hiva.
The former wise persons (Maori) predicted that it would come a time in which the land would sink; the raise of the waters would destroy many lives by what in the following generations canoes are constructed to escape of the island.
In times of the Ariki Matua, the acquaintance produces to himself episode of the dream or trip of Haumaka's spirit, which moves eastward in search of a new land. On having come to the eighth land, it descends in the islands of the vertex southwest from the island, which he identifies as three children of the Ariki Taanga (father of Matu'a) turned into stone (Motu Kao Kao, Motu Iti and Motu Nui). The spirit crosses the island for the south coast, up to coming to the bay that today we know as Anakena. Before returning flame to the island “Te Pito O Te Kainga ".
The spirit returns to Hiva and gets in the body slept of Haumaka, who goes to the King Hotu Matua. The King orders him to instruct young men in the construction of a great craft, to assemble provisions and the whole necessary load to make the trip towards the new land.

There are sent seven explorers who state the seen for Haumaka's spirit and cross the whole island before returning to Hiva.Hotu Matua realized the trip towards the new land in two crafts, one of him and other one of his sister Avareipua, both colonists' floods and provisions to be supplied and for the culture. They landed in Anakena's beach, place that would remain established as the residence of the kings. To the moment to land, the wife of the King, Vakai, there gave birth a child called Tuu Maheke, the first inheritor of the royal lineage.Hotu Matu'a divided the territories of the island between his children, who were like that the ancestors of the different tribes: Miru, Koro Orongo, Ngaure, Scrapes, Hamea, Ko Tuu, Hotu Iti, etc.
Hotu Matu'a lived his last days in the sector Through Rano Kau. When he felt near his death, it assembled the principal chiefs and designated your major son as successor, asked to be taken at the edge of the volcano to look for last time at his natal land at the northwest. From there it called to four spirits in order that they were sending the sign of your item across the singing of the roosters. Then, his children took it to your house, where he died; your body was buried in Akahanga.
Hitherto the legend allows to know with certainty neither the historical veracity nor the epoch in which these facts would have happened.

Social organizational:

From the legend of the Ariki Hotu To Matu'a, there is defined a social order headed by the royal family (Ariki Paka) and the religious aristocracy that was including wise persons (Maori) and priests (ivi atua), and then a specialists' variety craftsmen, warriors (matato'a), fishermen (Tangata Terevaka) and farmers (Tangata Keu Keu Henua). Teachers who were teaching(showing) the art of reading (Maori Rongo Rongo) and the common people (Huru Manu) that was constituting the base of the social pyramid. To the lowest level the servants were (Kio) and the defeated enemies destined for the sacrifice (Ika).

The position of the aristocracy was sustained in your divine origin, as descendant of the creative gods. In the line of the ariki of Rapa Nui, the first-born son was destined to receive the power as religious leader of the island. The important men like the ariki were undressed in a power of supernatural origin the mana, and protected by the procedure tapu, the prohibited. This power was centering in the head, to the point that according to the tradition nobody it could have, nor to cut the hair. This power could express in positive form on having initiated the sowings or crops, or in negative form, provoking even the death.
The social major unit was the "mata"" or clan, which origins were going back to the own Hotu Matu'a. The territories they were marked defining straight lines from the coast up to the center of the island. Up to today there remain bordering milestones, mounds of stones called wee horeko.

Politics:

Ariki, the principal authority of the island, was considered of divine origin and that the principal productive activities were controlled by the caste of the priests; on the latter point, also we must bear in mind the high presence of gigantic constructions destined for the religious worship, since they are the ahu and the moai.

Close to the religious traditions related to the vital cycle of the men, the society Rapanui also developed customs relative to the presence of spirits in the community; these were shaping a duality between the good and evil, and could be personified both in animals and in objects. In relation with this affirmation, we must remember that the Rapanui were considering that to the ariki or king, it was possessing magic power that were known by the name of manna, and that they were allowing him(her) to this one assuring the fecundity of the crops and the preeminence on the malignant spirits.

Authorities of Rapa Nui
Governor Provincial: Carolina Hotu Hey.
Mayor: Luz Sazzo Paoa
Councilmen: Ximena Trengove Pakarati, Marta Hotus, Julio Araki, Carlos Mardones Riroroko and Alberto Hotus.
For more information it presses here rapanuipress


Festivities:

Tapati Rapa Nui cultural event, in which former island traditions are remembered as well as also contemporary activities and competitions. This cultural event is realized in different scenes of the island. Museum father Sebastian Englert: islanders assembles cultural elements, preferably of daily labors, pictorial, handcrafted, religious, ancient representations and several elements of fishing and agriculture. It is possible to visit afoot or in vehicle. Distant to scanty meters of Hanga gnaws; located in the sector of Tahai.

Tapati Rapa Nui

This festival that joins the people Rapa Nui is realized every year in February for 30 years. It allows to preserve the identity Rapa Nui.For 2 weeks the people meets again with all your sports and ancient activities: music, gastronomy sculpture, lid, carved, and more specially with: The Takona, contest of corporal paintings.
The Rio and Ute.
The Hoko Haka Opo, in which two groups of singers must rival more possible time with singings without repeating them.
The Haka Pei or slide in trunks of bananas in the Maunga Pui in an earring to 45 º with a speed of 70 to 80km/h, without protection in the body. The only competition in the world today. The Pora swimming with floats of totora on a distance of 1500 m.
The Tau'a Rapa Nui, species of triathlon I re-give the orders with boat of totora, career with 15 kilos of bananas to the shoulder, and swimming on pora in Rano Raraku's crater. And, between other activities the Tingi Tingi Mahute, realized fabric beating the bark of the tree of mulberry.

This party consists also of a cajolement and of the crowning of the maiden (2 ó 3 aspirants helped by its families and friends) who obtained the maximum of points along the diverse competitions.
It is an unforgettable and unpublished party.


Fishing:

For the Polynesians, the sea did not have secrets. It had been the way to move for thousands of kilometres, during many generations. Those who came to Rapa Nui, they sailed in one of the most seaworthy crafts invented in the history of the Humanity: the canoe of double hull the catamaran. Also they used a mobile candle that gave to them the aptitude to sail in opposition to the wind.

In the ancient times, the species of major prestige, as the tuna (kahi) and the tortoises (honu), were reserved to the nobility, and your apprehension was prohibited (tapu) during most of the year. The fishing on the high seas in the vaka landlady was reserved to the most wise fishermen (tangata rava ika ma'a), and to expert sailors (tangata tere vaka), under the strict control of the aristocracy miru, that was controlling the most important areas of the north coast and west.

During the winters months, only the royal canoe (vaka vaero) could go out of fishing driven by select some. Those who were eating of these products were remaining contaminated by the tapu, must live isolated in a time.

The fishing depth sea out was fulfilling in sites(places) called haka nononga, which were located from the sea aligning visible signs in land: features of the relief, towers (tupa) or mounds (pipi horeko) of stone, or some ahu. On the other hand, also special sites(places) of fishing were defined (hakaranga), such as pozones deep (rua); free rocks of mollusks to approximately hundred meters of the coast (toka), and the bays (hanga).

In addition, haka kainga were kept sectors called, between 500 and 1000 meters of the coast, destined for the upbringing of the ature, the fish that was using as bait in the fishing of tuna, a pitch that the tapu was getting up to the summer beginning
The phases of the moon and the magic were fundamental in the fishing, universal topic that has a special flavor in Polynesia. For your part, the technologies and the instruments of fishing in Rapa Nui they show a narrow kinship with the islands Marquise.

The fishhooks can separate in two thick categories: the small ro'u and piko, of bone, used in the coastal fishing for the women, and the fishhooks of major size of bone (mangai ivi), of animal or human bone (mangai ivi tangata), or of polished basalt (mangaimaea or mangai kahi). A special type is the compound fishhook (mangai vere vere) generally with both parts of bone, though there is known a couple of polished beards in stone.

The technologies of fishing and compilation of the products of the sea were including, in addition, the use of a variety of networks (kupenga); traps (walls of stone to capture fish in the low tide); sliding bows managed with two logs for the apprehension of eels (here koreha); a mesh at the end of a log (hura); with a mesh while nothing (tutuku); to gather lobsters (ura) by night, with the help of torches (puhi); skin-diving depth in apnea (ruku ruku), especially for the obtaining of the valued crustaceans ura (lobster) and snuff rapa; fishes with line and fishhook while nothing in the surface (hi), between others.

Respect of the use of harpoons in the antiquity, knows only a harpoon of bone, of type marquesano, with fins, rounded top and central orifice to join the handle found in Anakena, and dating about 1200 A.D.

The compilation of the scanty mollusks and of minor fish on the coast was a task of women and children. The rough rocky relief was facilitating the access to hand of a series of small fish (ra'emea, run aground paohu, paroko, patuki); octopuses (heke); small crabs (pikea), hedgehogs (hatuke, vain) and some mollusks it sucks, takatore, pure and pipi).

At present, the overexploitation of species like the lobster makes your access much more difficult and puts in risk your conservation, as well as of the small mollusks (mash and wee) whose(which) shells are very valued to the confection of crafts, and of the coral strongly gathered for your sale as souvenir.

Art:

Music

Peho rapa Nui:It is the local music that combines ancient singings as the Riu, Ute, in relation to the type of ancient ceremony. According to Ramon Campbell, the first stage of singings was done to capella; many riu fell down in the oblivion.To evangelize the people Rapa nui, the missionaries used the like average singing of persuasion to enter to the new religion. Little by little, the music was modified with the influence of the exterior world and specially with the contact with Tahiti.Today, the modern compositions receive the influence of the Creole paces, American Mexican, north and of the instruments of music foreign to the original culture. Every year, in October, the festival Ka Tangi Ako allows to stimulate to the young men authors composers with the support of the local association Mana Tupuna.

Dance

The music and the dances are manifestations that arise from the need of the man to express across the movement and a spiritual and ritual experience. One speaks about the spiritual motives characterized by the dread, requests or gratefulnesses to the divinity; of affective or erotic motives; of the warlike motive for scaring to the enemy and car to get excited to attack the fight, or of the motive tied to the feast of the crop, birth, death. All that explains why the dance implies a message is significant and has a spiritual content, besides the aesthetic one.Though there do not exist documents that announce the characteristic of the dance Rapanui, at present this people is characterized by your great happiness, sense of the pace and because in your parties this manifestation is present for on all other.
The influence is evident of polinésico in the current dances to those who have joined others, as the tango and the waltz, but with a particular way of interpreting it Out-standing Rapanui.

Dance and Dances Rapa Nui:

Sau Sau: In the parties the site of honor corresponds to the Sau Sau, of Samoan origin, which the inhabitants fix the date of import in the years ' 40, which in the island it has taken own characteristics. During the night there are organized meetings, in which there is effected this dance, in which the women show all your grace and fluency, inside a rhythmical mobility, which they accompany on the undulating movement of your hands. In the Sau Sau, the pairs they join and separate with rapid movements of hips. In this dance, especially the women, put on a gown of pens of colors, which modern sets of dance are introducing.

Ula Ula: Dance of origin Tahitians, a reminiscence of the original one is danced in the Island, according to the doctor Ramon Campbell. Dancing generally in pace of continuously I live, the pairs are accustomed to dance separated, making wave specially the hips in lateral form, softly, and resting the feet alternative on the heel and the top of the fingers, with rotation of them. The women accompany the dance on graceful movements of the arms, making them undulate in very harmonious form, already aside already towards other one, imitating in many occasions the act of the hairs combing itself with a hand and to be contemplated in an invisible mirror by another hand. All that with a grace and very feminine and captivating suggestion.

Tamure: It dances properly Tahitians, whose grace takes root in two principal aspects. On one hand, the real acrobatics that is precise to develop with the legs, in extraordinarily rapid movements and the execution of pelvic more or less violent movements of sway (R. Campbell). Those who execute well this dance are the men who have travelled to Tahiti. The women in few opportunities dare to do the steps or figures of the Tamuré tahitiano. Dances and current singings are stylizations of the folklore polinésico. Of recent origin they are the waltz tahitiano and the tango pascuense.
Tamure

Writing

The Talking Boards (Kohau Rongo Rongo)
A crux yet...

The slats have not been deciphered and constitute one of the complicated more cruxes of the culture it Rapa Nui...
It is known by the name of rongo rongo to the system of writing carved with '"tops of obsidian or teeth of shark " in the main on the slats of wood.The inhabitants of the Easter Island called her also '"kohau rongorongo ". The current translation of the term "kohau" is a wood that serves to making the hull of the canoes, and rongorongo is the great message, the great study. Also it was translated as "lines of recitation" or '"support staffs reciters ".
There are authors who say that this form of writing is the unique writing constructed in the whole Oceania, though a feasible deciphering is absent still to verify it. The symbols or the glifos come carved along grooves done in advance to the engraving in the appliances and are of an average height between 8 mm up to 1 cm. They seem to represent graphically picture cards of anthropomorphic beings in diverse positions, other creatures of fantasy that are alike the birds, the plants and other terrestrial and aquatic animals, celestial objects, as well as also geometric objects, fishhooks, among others.


Gastronomy:

According to the oral tradition, the Ariki Hotu Matu'a has brought to the island: yams, bananas, canes of sugar, taros, rates, hens.

The Ocean delivers a variety of fish which more desired it is the tuna.Apart from the nourishment of every day, the Umu practised in the dates of rituals of pregnancy, birth, death and celebration of the ancestors with the party of the Paina and other ceremonies, it was allowing to cook great quantity of food in an oven practised under land with volcanic warm stones in which one was arranging the food for caps of food separated by leaves of banana, any cutlery of land and with stewed boiling. Up to today, it is the gastronomic accomplishment with more success.
The Tunu Ahí, boiling outdoors in warm stones, is of regular use overcoat after a fishing shore of the sea.
With the tourism this gastronomy adapted and became more refined to the tastes of the visitors with meetings degustations.
The Tipic food are Umu Tahu (curanto) and Pies of tuna.

Tourism

Places of interest - Tourist Activities - Services - Accessibility

The incomparable archaeological patrimony, the singularity of your inhabitants and traditions, the transparency of your waters, your elegant geography and white beaches attract hundreds of travelers and adventurers of all parts of the world, who find here a paradisiacal place for the practice of the skin-diving, exploration of caverns, tours archaeological, treks and cavalcades.

Your major wealth they are them near 1000 gigantic statues of volcanic stones, the moai. This archaeological patrimony understands pictographies, petroglyphs, megalithic art - including the statues.

Places of interest

National Park Rapa Nui: The National Park Rapa Nui was created in 1935, it is in the Easter Island and a surface of 7.130 includes hectares, which means 44 % of the territory of the island. The administration of the Park corresponds to the National Forest Corporation, CONAF, and Mataveri Otai is in Hanga Roa's settlement in the sector. In addition three day-care centers exist in Orongo, Rano Raraku and Anakena.

Ahu Ko Te Riku: This altar is the third one of a great ceremonial religious - political center called Tahai. This ahu stands out for presenting pukao, symbol of aristocratic status, on your head; this hat is carved on volcanic red dross obtained of the quarry of Puna Pau. Your eyes it are replies elaborated in white coral and red dross.

Ahu Tongariki: This site was destroyed by a tsunami in 1960. This site was restored thanks money coming from a Japenese company. Impressive site because there are 15 moai.

Tahai: It is the most important religious political center of the tribe marama, reflects the magnitude and potential so much economically as religious administrative officer of this tribe. It is located to 20 minutes walking along the coastal line towards the north. It is the place most indicated to enjoy the beautiful late afternoons of Rapa Nui. There is constituted of three altars Ahu Vai Uri of 5 moai, Ahu Tahai of an alone moai being that of major antiquity, located in the center and Ahu Ko You Riku with a moai that it presents pukao, which represents the hierarchy of the person who wanted to honor with this sculpture, is the only one moai that is enabled by a reproduction of the eyes of coral by red dross.

Te Pito O Te Henua: It is a big perfectly rounded stone that indicates the navel of the world for the former ones Rapa Nui. His name Pito; navel, uterus, center; Henua; land, universe, territory, meant “The navel of the land” or “The uterus of the planet”.

Ahus moai: 272 are relied on nowadays ahus, funeral and sacred altars, by a majority in ruins. Opposite to each of the ahus as in Vaihu, Akahanga, Tetenga, One Makihi, Heki'i, Te Peu, Vinapu is easy to find vestiges of the ancient villages.

Tongariki:It is the biggest monument of the islands of the Pacific Ocean with 15 moai whose more high place weighs 88 tons and it measures more of 9m of height. This ahu was restored from 1992 to 1996, thanks to the Japanese company of derricks "Tadano".

Ahu Nau Nau: This ahu located in Anakena's site of the royal tribe "miru" has moais in good condition of conservation.
This ahu was damaged it does little for an unscrupulous tourist, who was condemned and fined severely.

Ahu Ature Huki: East Ahu is located in Anakena's right part. It was raised in 1956 thanks to 12 men islanders in 18 days only by stones, approximately 4 levers and ropes. (It weighs 30 tons).

Ahu Vinapu: This complex has an ahu whose later wall presents a perfection in coupling, seemed to the walls Incas of Cuzco in Peru but it is a question only of an analogy, without any similarity.

Ahu Houri To Urenga: Located to the exit of Hanga Roa, this ahu was restored and it has the particularity of having an orientation in the line of the winter solstice. In addition, it has 4 drawn hands, which he leads to several interpretations.Ahu Akivi: Famous for his position to the interior of the island, orientated in the line of equinox, opposite to the sea in the distance. Your 7 moai, have content of legend.

Orongo: (Ceremonial village) Located in the south top west of the island, this site(place) restored in the sixties, contains 53 income of houses, dominating the cliff to 300m of altitude. Numerous petroglyphs of the "Tangata Manu" can appreciate in the ceremonial center.

Hanga Roa's cove O'tai: It was constructed between the year 1966 and 1967, with Paenga, stones that are in use for the construction of ahu that was in the place called spring Vai Haho. Cove of small dimensions where there are practiced tasks of load and unload of fishing apparels, also is in use for the passengers' traffic in boats from ships of tourism. Likewise, fishermen's boats are hired to visit sites that make a detour to the island. It is possible in addition, to realize other activities as canotaje, ditches and skin-diving. They find there some positions of crafts and restaurants that offer fished typical of Rapa Nui, since: nanue, tuna, etc. In the middle of the cove exists an image in honor to Saint Peter. In Hanga Roa, Hanga Roa's small beach O'tai is the principal place related to the surf.

Beach Anakena: It is a place of scattering and of baths of sea, characterized by his clean, lukewarm water and of color turquoise, the luminosity of the environment and the bottom of sands coralliferous, they are of great attraction. In this beach there ended the expeditionary groups of the Ariki Hotu Matu'a, the first king of the island. It was a center familiar and of political, social and cultural organization of the former leaders and school of the Maori Rongo Rongo, teachers of the ancient writing, extinguished at present, for the foreigners' different incursions and movement of Rapa Nui as slaves out of the island, during last century. The educations of its culture and wisdom remain in the time, according to the familiar common traditions of the existing clans in the island. In this sector two are ahu totally restored, the Ahu Ature Huki and the Ahu Nau Nau, realized by the expedition Kon-Tiki in 1954.

Ovahe beach: It is a small beach, of volcanic origin that is located under Ovahe's cliffs. Its sand is of golden color it product of the mixture of red dross of the coral with the white reigning sands. It is a beach very adapted for the enjoyment of baths of sea with total tranquility.

Puna Pau: A place where the hairdo of red dross of the Moai were made (Pukao), there are many which were in their way to be definitively located.

Volcano Rano Kau: It is located in the south end of the island. His name comes from the words Rano Kau Volcano, au widely, nothing, extensively. In his interior a lagoon exists with an extension of 1 kilometer of diameter, with a depth of your waters, which in a sounding realized in 1947, gave more than 280 meters. In the surface of the lagoon exuberant vegetation of rushes grows and totora.

Volcano Rano Raraku: It is one of the major ones and more valuable archaeological sites of the island, since in it one finds the opened quarry where the carved one of the moai was realized. Here more than 300 monuments exist in process of construction spread so much in the interior as exterior hillside, in what it has been called the way of the moai. It has a height of 100 meters on the level of the sea, in oval form with a crater in your top and an interior lagoon with a depth of approximately more than 50 meters in your deeper part. The Volcano Rano Raraku is shaped by volcanic tufas of gray color ocher, with some differences according to the space of the Raraku, and at the same time, in agreement to your hardness and your homogeneity.

Volcano Poike: It is a zone protected for the ranching and the reforestation. It is possible to enter only travelled.

The Maunga Terevaka: Higher Point of the island with 514m of height, this volcano is accessible only afoot or astride (by foot or astride).
From the top, the panorama is of 360 º. The Rano Aroi, with your small covered lagoon of totora, is a crater worth coming out in photographs.

Volcanic galleries and caves of the sector Ana Te Pahu - Roiho:

This group of volcanic galleries located to the feet of the Maunga Terevaka, Pahu is constituted of caves by entry, type manavai outdoors as Ana You, has plantation of bananas, avocado, mahute. A few caves end in the cliffs opposite to the sea.

Ana Kakenga: Named “The cave of 2 windows “(this cave has a difficult and very dark access). This cave ends in the cliffs opposite to the sea.

Ana Kai Tangata: To the feet of the Rano Kau it has paintings of marine birds in the sky of your entry.

Tunnels of Lava: In several places of the island, specially in the faldeos of the volcano Maunga Terevaka exists tunnels under the lava, very interesting of visiting, specially the cave of both windows. Some of these tunnels have fallen and in your interior numerous species of flora exist.

Submarine sight: It is worth a sorrow realizing skin-diving of apnea specially in the sector of The Perousse, with a nice submarine environment, with corals and many fish of multicolored color. The sector of the Perousse is known of the divers.

The Motu or Islands: Several are observed near the coast being outlined Motu Nui, Motu Iti, Motu Kao Kao opposite to Orongo and they are a reservation of the biosphere, protected and not accessible zone to the tourism; former the islands were a scene of the search of the sacred egg in the ceremonies of the man bird.
Motu Tautara and Motu Marotiri are seen also in other parts of the coast.

Tourist activities
Some activities outdoors more recommended to practice in the island are:

Equestrian Activity: The equestrian activity is one of the alternatives to know Rapa Nui. Astride there can be known places that do not have access with vehicle since it is the whole north top of It Rapa Nui. The reservations can be done directly in the office of the Sernatur.

Photography: Excellent place to come out in photographs and to film the archaeological resources of the island, a place of dream in the insular Chilean territory. Between the recreative possible activities to realize in the island the treks, excursions, visits stand out to the principal cultural resources, swimming and activities of beach, submarine surface fishing and, skin-diving of observation, cavalcades (rental of horses in Hanga Roa).
There exists an interesting path of interpretation of approximately 40 minutes of duration in Orongo's ceremonial village in the volcano Rano Kao, and two paths of excursion. The first one in the volcano Rano Raraku, where the quarries can be seen where there were carved the Moai and several of these already finished statues that were going towards your definitive destination; and another Anakena, with a beautiful tour of the coast of the island

Archaeological places: Undoubtedly the major attraction of the Island they are the Moais, but the obligatory places to crossing, once coming to the Island they are the Rano Kau, Ceremonial Village of Orongo, Vaihu, Rano Raraku, Ahu Tongariki, Ahu Akivi, Ahu Nau Nau, The Perousse, Ahu Tahai among others.

Excursion Complete Total Day:
From $20.000.- additional to the tour fullday you will be able to enjoy an unforgettable adventure. The classic one considers tour fullday, then in the Beach Anakena we embark in yacht Varua Vaika to initiate a voyage up to Hanga Roa, sailing along the north coast of the island, enjoying a snack and accompanied the putting Sun. It comes near about 20:00 hours.

Tour Fullday:
Going out from Hanga Roa's settlement, visiting the coast South-East and North-East; the temples of Vaihu, Akahanga, Tongariki, Te Pito Kura, Nau Nau, Rano Raraku's quarry, Anakena beach, Property in the country Vaitea, return to the settlement. Duration 8 hours.
Half A Day to Rano Kao and Orongo:
It splits in Hanga Roa, there is visited Rano Kau and Orongo's Ceremonial Village. Some operators visit also Vinapu and Hana Kai Tangata. The duration is 3,5 hours.

Half a Day to Ahu AKivi:
It splits from Hanga Roa and Puna Pau, Ahu Akivi and Ana Te Pahu visits (the cavern of the bananas). The duration is 3,5 hours.

Snorkeling:
The visibility and temperature of the sea that surrounds the Island invites to realizing snorkeling. The places recommended to fulfil this activity are: Beach Ovahe, sector cove Hanga Roa, the Motu, Giant Coral, among others.

Tour in Yacht:

Visits the Motu Kao Kao, Motu Iti and Motu Nui, with visits Coral Giant, has a duration among 3 at 4 hours. One sets sail of Hanga Piko's Cove or Hanga Roa's Bay, with course to the Motu then, we will sail to the famous Giant coral where the passenger not only will be able to enjoy the local beauty, but also it will be able to realize skin-diving to apnea. The trip is accompanied by appetizer and music of Rapa Nui. It is realized preferably on Saturday.
Skin-diving: To dive in Easter Island turns out to be an unforgettable adventure, this island, for its volcanic origin, presents a submarine topography composed by caverns, arches, cliffs, platforms of lava, etc, that added to the great quantity of corals, tropical fish, color and clarity of its waters do of the skin-diving, an impressive and fascinating experience. It is not possible to visit Rapa Nui and not to enjoy this marvel. Recommended places Orca and MikeRapu

Tour in Private Yacht:
It can contract a service deprived of yacht by half a day or complete day. In the yacht you will be able to enjoy the sunset, to dive, to go fishing, to realize naturism accompanied of snack and music, these tour are private.

Cavalcades:
Going out from Tahai, towards the north coast, crossing some caverns and archaeological platforms, to return for the interior (Ahu Akivi), towards Hanga Roa's village. Duration: 3.5 hours.

Trekking:
Path Te Ava O Te Ao, Raised 8 km, 2-3 h. The trek advances for the “path of Chili ", going out of Hanga Roa, along the coast and later on pasture and across shaded forests with pretty landscapes, coming in only 2 to 3 h to the crater Rano Kau. Recommended places Discoverrapanui


Services

In Hanga Roa there are several hotels and residential that offer housing and show restraint. Here also they can find the rest of the services.
Only in Anakena's beach areas exist of camp and it lunches, with 7 sites provided with table, bankings, burners and dust-bins and 5 sites of camp with the same infrastructure and with sanitary.
As for transport there exist rentals of bicycles and horses. In addition the island possesses particular taxis and one that another line of radio taxis, for example Confenatach taxis Confenatach


Where to sleep?

Hotels:

• Explora Hotel (5 stars) Sector Te-Miro Oone w/n Tel: (02) 395-2700 / 03
• Martin and Anita Hotel (2 stars) Av. Simon Paoa Tel/Fax: 210-0593
• Poike Hotel (2 stars) Av. Petero Atamu Tel: 210-0283 / Fax: 210 0366
• Atariki Hotel Av. Tuki Haka Ha Vari w/n Tel: 255-1027
• Chez Cecilia Hotel Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 210-0499
• Chez Joseph Rapa Nui Hotel Av. Avareipua w/n 210-0373 / Fax: 210-0105
• Gomero Hotel Av. Tu´u Koihu w/n Tel: 210-0313 Fax: 255-1662
• Hanga Roa Hotel Av. Pont w/n Fax: 210-0299
• Hostal Chez Maria Goretti Hotel Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 210-0459
• Hotu Matua Hotel Av. Pont Tel: 210-0242 Fax: 210-0444
• Iorana Hotel Av.Policarpo Toro Tel/Fax: 210-0312
• Manavai Hotel Av. Te Pito Te Henua Tel: 210-0670 Fax: 210-0658
• Manu Tara Hotel Hotu Matua w/n Tel: 210-0397Oceania Rapa Nui Hotel Av. Tu'u koihu s/n Tel: 210-0356
• Orongo Aester Island Hotel Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 210-0572 Fax: 210-0294
• O´Tai Hotel Av. Te Pito Te Henua Tel: 210-0250 Fax: 210-0560
• Taha Tai Hotel Av. Policarpo Toro Tel: 255-1192 / 255-1193 Fax: 255-1194
• Tauraa Hotel Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel/Fax: 210-0463
• Topa Ra`a Hotel Av.Hetereki w/n Tel: 210-0225
• Victoria HotelAv. Pont Tel/Fax: 210-0272

Cabains:

• Mataveri Inn Av. Mataveri w/n Tel/Fax: 210-0565
• Anariki Av. Tuki Haka He Vari w/n Tel: 210-0335
• Cabañas Christophe Av.Mataveri w/n Tel: 210-0826
• Kaviroa Av.Tuki Haka He Vari w/n Tel: 210-0460
• Kitai Av.Atamu Tekena Tel: 210-0595 / 255-1516 Fax: 210-0641
• Kon Tutty Av. Ara Roa Raikei w/n Tel: 210-0570
• Koreto Av. Tahai w/n Tel: 255-1201
• Mana Nui Inn Av. Tahai w/n Tel: 255-1658 Tel/Fax: 210-0811
• Mana Ora Sector Hinere w/n Tel: 20-0769
• Mana´u Av. Tuki Haka He Vari w/n Tel: 255-1900
• Napohe Av. Ara Roa Raikei w/n Tel: 255-1169 Fax: 207-8455
• Pikera Uri Sector Tahai w/n Tel/Fax: 210-0577
• Vai Moana Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 210-0626

Boarding-houses:

• Vaikapua Av. Te Pito Te Henua w/n Trl: 210-0377
• Vaianny Tuki Haka He Vari w/n Tel: 210-0650
• Vai a Heva Av. Hotu Matu´a w/n Tel: 210-0655
• Rei Miro Av. Policarpo Toro w/n Tel: 210-0763
• Rano Kau Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 210-0432 / Fax: 210-0351
• Rano Aroi Av. Tu'u koihu w/n Tel: 210-0233
• Raioha Av. Te Pito Te Henua w/n Tel: 210-0851
• Petero Atamu Av. Petero Atamu w/n Tel: 255-1735 / 210-0399
• Katarahi Av. Hotu Matua w/n Fax: 210-0628 / Cel: 9-923583472
• Inaki Uhi Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 210-0231 / 255-1160
• Hanga Roa Reka Av. Simon Paoa Tel: 210-0433 / Fax: 210-0105
• Chez Oscar Av. Pont w/n Tel: 255-1261
• Aukara Av. Pont w/n Tel: 210-0539 / Fax: 255-1472
• Apina Tupuna Sector Apina Nui w/n Tel: 210-0763
• Anakena Av. Hetereki Tel/Fax: 210-0292
• Ana Rapu Av. Policarpo Toro Tel/Fax: 210-0540
• Aloha Nui Av. Atamu Tekena Tel/Fax: 210-0274
• Akapu Tahai s/n Tel: 210-0954

Guest Houses:

• Villa Tiki Av. Pont w/n Tel: 210-0327
• Tita Et Lionel Av. Te Pito Te Henua w/n Tel: 255-1279
• Tekena Inn Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 210-0289
• Taniera Av. Simon Paoa w/n Tel: 210-0491
• Tahai Sector Tahai w/n Tel: 210-0395
• Tadeo y Lili Av. Policarpo Toro w/n Tel: 210-0422
• Puku Rangi Uka Av. Puku Rangi Uka w/n Tel: 210-0405
• Mahina Taka Taka Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 210-0452
• Kona Tau Av. Avareipua w/n Tel: 210-0321
• Janet y Sandra Av. Atamu Tekena w/n
• El Tauke Av. Te Pito Te Henua w/n Tel: 210-0253
• Chez Jerome Policarpo Toro w/n Tel: 210-0590
• Chez Erika Tuki Haka He Vari w/n Tel: 210-0474
  

Where to eat?

Restaurants:

• Victoria Av. Pont w/n Tel: 210-0272
• Vai A Repa Av. Atamu Tekena Tel: 210-0105
• Topatangi Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 255-1694
• Topa Ra`a Hetereki w/n Tel: 210-0353
• Te Raái Rapa Nui Av. Kaituoe w/n Tel: 221-00983
• Te Maona Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 210-0255
• Tavake Av. Policarpo Toro w/n Tel: 210-0300
• Poike Av. Petero Atamu w/n Tel: 210-0283
• Pea Calle Oho Vehi w/n
• Pea Policarpo Toro w/n Tel: 210-0382
• Pea Av. Atamu Tekena con Tu´u Maheke
• Orongo Av. Policarpo Toro w/n Tel: 210-0294
• Manutara Av. Hotu Matu´a w/n Tel: 210-0297
• Mama Sabina Te Pito o Te Henua w/n
• La Tinita Te Pito o Te Henua w/n Tel: 210-0105
• La Caleta Av. Te Pito o Te Henua Tel: 210-0105
• Kopa Kavana Av. Pont w/n Tel: 210-0447
• Kopa Kavana Av. Te Pito o Te Henua w/n Tel: 210-0105
• Kona Koa Calle Oho Vehi w/nKon Tutty Tel: 210-0570
• Kitai Policarpo Toro Tel: 210-0105
• Kai Mana Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 210-0255
• Iorana Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 210-0312
• Hotu Matu´a Av. Pont w/n Tel: 210-0444
• Hanga Roa Av. Pont w/n Tel: 210-0299
• Gringo`s Av. Policarpo Toro w/n
• Fuente de Soda Tavake Av. Atamu Tekena Tel: 210-0300 Fax: 210-0105
• Cuerito Regalón Av. Atamu Tekena w/n
• Avareipua Av.Policarpo Toro s/n Tel: 210-0105

Fish and Seafood:

• Pergola Aringa Ora Av. Hotu Matua w/n Tel: 210-0394
• Pakarati Service Ltda. Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 255-1740
• La Taverne Du Pecheur Caleta de Pescadores Hanga Roa Otai w/n Tel: 210-0651
• Regional Cuisine:Ariki Ote Pana Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 210-0171

Restaurants and Coffee-shops:

• Ra'a Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 255-1530

Coffee-shops:

• Vai Uri Museo Antropológico padre Sebastián Englert
• Banana Café Av. Policarpo Toro w/n
  

Pubs:

• Tupuna Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 210-0344

Pizza Shops:

• Giovani Av. Te Pito o Te Henua Tel: 210-0105

Rent a Car:

• Boutique Kahu Tau Tel: 210-0538
• Comercial Insular Tel: 210-0480
• Oceanic Tel: 210-098

Travel and Tourist Agency:

• Aku Aku Tour Av. Tu'u Koihu 0 Tel: 255-1777 / 255-1537 Fax: 210-0770
• Anakena Tour Av. Apina Tel: 210-0292Ats Tel: 255-1611
• Hahave Tour Av. Tu'u Koihu Tel: 210-0257 Fax: 210-0105
• Hanga Roa Travel Av. Tu'u Koihu Tel: 255-1158
• Haumaka Tour Service Av. Puku Rangi Uka Tel: 210-0411
• Kararaku Tour Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 255-1064
• Kiakoe Tour Av. Atamu Tekena Tel: 210-0282
• Mahinatur Service Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 210-0420 / 210-0220 Fax: 210-0105
• Mana Nui Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 210-0811 / 255-1658
• Manu Iti Tours Tu'u Koihu w/n Tel: 210-0313
• Portal Rapa Nui Av. Atamu Tekena w/n Tel: 255-2000
• Rapa Nui Travel Tel: 210-0548
• Tekena Tour Av. Policarpo Toro Tel: 210-0289
• Tiki Tour Av. Pont Hanga Roa Tel: 210-0327
• Toki Tour Aventura Av. Pont w/n Tel: 255-1026 / Cel: 9-82059721

Diving:

• Orca Diving Center Caleta de Hanga Roa Tel: 255-0877

Museums:

• P. Sebastian Englert Tahai w/n Tel/Fax: 255-1020 / 1
  
  

Accessibility:

The most habitual access to the Easter Island is by air, which is served by LAN Chile, with two weekly flights. The flight there goes out of the airport Comodoro Arturo Merino Benitez of Santiago and comes to Mataveri's airport, covering 3.700 Km in 6 flight schedule.
After Easter the plane continues flight course to Papeete, the capital of Tahiti.
By ship the trip lasts 6 days between Valparaiso and Hanga Roa.

Recommendations

Respect the archaeological resources of the island. Nice replies exist on the local market. The Moais must not be raised. It must throw neither garbage nor stubs of cigarette. Take frivolous clothes but be provided with a wind-shield to get ready of the common storms in the island.

Interesting videos of the island

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