Isla de Pascua (Rapanui) - Chile

D Pos - Easter Island (in Rapanui language Rapa Nui. " Rapa great" ) is an island of Chile located in Polynesia , in the middle of the Pacific Ocean 3700 km from Caldera.


has an area of 163.6 km² , which makes it the largest island of the insular Chile , and a population of 5035 inhabitants, concentrated in Hanga Roa , existing capital and only town on the island. The nearest inhabited land is the British territory of the Pitcairn Islands.


The island is one of the main tourist destinations because of its natural beauty and its mysterious ancient culture of ethnic Rapa Nui , whose most notable vestige corresponds to enormous statues known as moai.


To preserve these characteristics, the government managed through Conaf the Rapa Nui National Park , while the Unesco declared this park as a World Heritage in 1995.


Administratively, it is next to the uninhabited island Salas y Gómez , the commune of Easter Island which forms the province of Easter Island , belonging to the Region of Valparaíso.


However, a constitutional reform -the law 20193, published on 30 of July of 2007 - established the island as a "special territory" so that its government and administration shall be governed by a statute special, referred to in the organic law constitutional respective, by issued.

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Isla de Pascua (Rapanui) - Chile

Isla de Pascua (Rapanui) - Chile

D Pos - Easter Island (in Rapanui language Rapa Nui. " Rapa great" ) is an island of Chile located in Polynesia , in the middle of the Pacific Ocean 3700 km from Caldera.


has an area of 163.6 km² , which makes it the largest island of the insular Chile , and a population of 5035 inhabitants, concentrated in Hanga Roa , existing capital and only town on the island. The nearest inhabited land is the British territory of the Pitcairn Islands.


The island is one of the main tourist destinations because of its natural beauty and its mysterious ancient culture of ethnic Rapa Nui , whose most notable vestige corresponds to enormous statues known as moai.


To preserve these characteristics, the government managed through Conaf the Rapa Nui National Park , while the Unesco declared this park as a World Heritage in 1995.


Administratively, it is next to the uninhabited island Salas y Gómez , the commune of Easter Island which forms the province of Easter Island , belonging to the Region of Valparaíso.


However, a constitutional reform -the law 20193, published on 30 of July of 2007 - established the island as a "special territory" so that its government and administration shall be governed by a statute special, referred to in the organic law constitutional respective, by issued.