Island Entrepreneurs purify the Water In the past, Easter Islanders got their drinking water from the craters of the extinct volcanoes Rano Kau, Rano Raraku and Rano Aroi, as well as from the many subterranean caves that, even to the present day, hold an abundance of fresh water. Rainwater filters
In the past, it was customary to raise children from other families when they couldn’t have their own, couldn’t raise them, or simply wanted more children, as was the case with Niso Tuki: “I didn’t live with my biological parents, Eduardo Tuki Hey and Magdalena Tepano Ika, but with my
Patricia Lillo Chinchilla Patricia Lillo, daughter of Eusebio Lillo, thus a descendant of the composer of the Chilean national anthem, and Elba Chinchilla, has lived for more than 50 years on Easter Island, as a result of her older sister Elvira marring Marcelo Pont-Hill, a Rapanui, in Santiago in 1960.
