Isla de Pascua

"Isla de Pascua (en idioma rapanui Rapa Nuí. «Rapa grande») es una isla de Chile ubicada en la Polinesia, en medio del océano Pacífico a 3700 km de Caldera. Tiene una superficie de 163,6 km², lo que la convierte en la mayor de las islas del Chile insular, y una población de 5035 habitantes, concentrados en Hanga Roa, capital y único poblado existente en la isla. La tierra habitada más cercana es el territorio británico de las Islas Pitcairn. La isla es uno de los principales destinos turísticos del país debido a su belleza natural y su misteriosa cultura ancestral de la etnia rapanui, cuyo más notable vestigio corresponde a enormes estatuas conocidas como moái. Para preservar dichas características, el gobierno administra a través de Conaf el Parque nacional Rapa Nui, mientras que la Unesco declaró este parque como patrimonio de la humanidad en 1995. Administrativamente, forma, junto a la deshabitada isla Salas y Gómez, la comuna de Isla de Pascua que forma la provincia de Isla de Pascua, perteneciente a la Región de Valparaíso. Sin embargo, una reforma constitucional la ley 20193, publicada el 30 de julio de 2007 estableció a la isla como un «territorio especial», de manera que su gobierno y administración serán regidos por un estatuto especial, contemplado en la ley orgánica constitucional respectiva, por dictarse."

"Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is a Chilean island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle. Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people. In 1995, UNESCO named Easter Island a World Heritage Site, with much of the island protected within Rapa Nui National Park. Polynesian people most likely settled on Easter Island sometime between 700 and 1100 CE, and created a thriving and industrious culture as evidenced by the island's numerous enormous stone moai and other artifacts. However, human activity, the introduction of the Polynesian rat and overpopulation led to gradual deforestation and extinction of natural resources which severely weakened the Rapa Nui civilization. By the time of European arrival in 1722, the island's population had dropped to 2,0003,000 from an estimated high of approximately 15,000 just a century earlier. European diseases and Peruvian slave raiding in the 1860s further reduced the Rapa Nui population, to a low of only 111 inhabitants in 1877. Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world. The nearest inhabited land (around 50 residents in 2013) is Pitcairn Island, 2,075 kilometres (1,289 mi) away; the nearest town with a population over 500 is Rikitea, on the island of Mangareva, 2,606 km (1,619 mi) away; the nearest continental point lies just in central Chile, 3,512 kilometres (2,182 mi) away. Easter Island is a special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888. Administratively, it belongs to the Valparaíso Region, and, more specifically, it is the only commune of the Province Isla de Pascua. According to the 2012 Chilean census, the island has about 5,800 residents, of whom some 60 percent are descendants of the aboriginal Rapa Nui. Easter Island is considered part of Insular Chile."