Easter Island is considered to be an open-air museum where the most important symbols are the nearly one thousand giant states made from volcanic rock (Moai) and the petroglyphs which survive as testimony to the rich culture of the ancient people.
Hena Naku, the god of feathers, loved Te Pito o te Henua, the Navel of the World, the ancient name for Easter Island. The sea birds, which were under his protection, preferred to nest on the rocky cliffs that surround the Island.
Scientists who have for many years been studying the migrations of the Polynesian ancestors across the Pacific Ocean, met between the 6th and the 10th of last November at Villa Biyu-Siyu in Ubud, Bali. Several representatives of the Rapanui community were in attendance at this small, exclusive gathering which was
The artistic event, held every year in the month of January, sharing some of the more than 60 presentations that are to be offered by Chilean and international companies.
Ninoska tells the story of how her mother went aboard a ship to join her boyfriend in Puerto Rico, but when she arrived in Valparaiso on the continent, she was met with the news that he had died in Vietnam.
Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - when compared with other South Pacific islands - is one of the most ecologically degraded islands. Due to a number of environmental factors including geographic isolation.
This concept of megalithic statues looking at the horizon is contradicted by scientific knowledge and the idea that has always existed within the Rapa Nui people.
Conaf signed the association agreement with the Ma'u Henua indigenous community of Rapa Nui, with which the Rapanui ethnic group will share the administration of the National Park
The origins of the rituals celebrated at Orongo, as a religious cult connected to the migratory sea birds which arrived at the islets in front of the cliffs, have still not been well determined even today.
A study on the village of this important archaeological complex was recently completed with the aim of making a diagnosis and presenting a plan for preservation.