The wreck of “El Dorado”
Following the arrival of slave ships from Peru in 1862 and the Tahiti exodus of 300 people in 1871, the French anthropologist Alfonso Pinart recorded in 1877 the lowest demographic census in Rapanui history with only 111 souls. From the same year the new foundations of Rapanui families are born with an interesting miscegenation of various origins, retaining even some surnames such as Edmunds, Pont, Cardinali and Calderón and many others of Chilean blood. Like Elena Atan Atan and Juan Tuki Tuki, there are many children of foreigners and some Chilean sub-delegates, officials and political relegates who did not receive official recognition from their parents, but carry two maternal surnames. After El Dorado there have been as many shipwrecks whose crew remained for a long time in Rapa Nui before being rescued by increasing miscegenation in Rapa Nui.
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