Jan 7, 2020
The Ahu A Moa Paro, an ancient platform relatively unknown is found in the Hanga Hemu sector, approximately 80 meters (260 feet) to the west of the only gravel quarry that exists on Rapa Nui.
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Dec 31, 2019
The Day of the Language or Mahana or te Re’o was created in 1995 by two teachers of the Rapanui language, Hilaria Tuki and Virginia Haoa, to raise awareness.
Dec 27, 2019
A North American Air Force base installed on Easter Island in the 1960s was part of a project of espionage on the Soviet Union from space. The journalist Patricia Stambuk clarifies all doubts with recently declassified documents from Washington: “Rapa Nui formed part of the larger scenario of the Cold
Dec 13, 2019
Honui The Rapanui Families Organize 2016 was the 50th anniversary of the government of Chile establishing civil administration on Rapa Nui, after leasing it for 47 years to a British multi-national livestock firm, followed by 13 years under the administration and jurisdiction of the Chilean Navy. This decision was taken
Dec 10, 2019
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
Dec 2, 2019
The purpose of the voyage? For Algalita Marine Research and Education, to sample floating plastic pollution in the South Pacific Ocean,
Nov 29, 2019
In Rapa Nui people who do not live beyond the law and not know a word as old as the existence of the human species; the word freedom. Yes; because the prison exists in Easter Island.
Nov 7, 2019
Teatro a Mil 2017 in Rapa Nui This coming year, the international theater festival “Santiago a Mil” will also include Easter Island. The artistic event, held every year in the month of January, will not only take over the streets, theaters and other public spaces of the capital city, but
Nov 5, 2019
A Choir for Rapa Nui Last December, the newly-formed Choir of Isla de Pascua offered its first presentations in the parish church and in the Hotel Hanga Roa. They sang some Christmas carols, songs from “The Sound of Music” and “The Wizard of Oz”, two Polynesian songs which had been
Nov 4, 2019
Ubud, Bali 2016 International Conference Early Pacific Migration Scientists from Australia, New Zealand, Russia, USA, Germany, Cook Islands and Rapa Nui, 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
Oct 25, 2019
Total Lunar Eclipse on Rapa Nui On January 31, at 5:51 a.m., local time, Easter Island will witness the beginning of a total eclipse of a so-called blue moon. Totality will be reached at 8:30 in the morning, when the shadow of the earth completely covers the moon. This phenomenon
Sep 16, 2019
Climate Changes on Rapa Nui Effects on animal life in the Eastern Pacific Ocean: El aumento de las lluvias relacionado con El Niño aumenta la turbidez del agua y disminuye su salinidad, influyendo en los procesos de fotosintesis submarina. Ello afecta la relacion natural entre los peces y su medio