Easter Island was annexed by Chile on 9 September 1888 by Policarpo Toro by means of the "Treaty of Annexation of the Island" (Tratado de Anexión de la isla). Each July nearly 200,000 people descend upon the tiny town of La Tirana to celebrate its namesake festival. These occur mostly in the winter months (June–August). [105], The Pu o Hiro or Hiro's Trumpet is a stone on the north coast of Easter Island. The western and northern portion of the island belonged to the Tu'u, which included the royal Miru, with the royal center at Anakena, though Tahai and Te Peu served as earlier capitals. Contemporary ethnographic research has proven there is scarcely any tangible evidence for widespread cannibalism anywhere and at any time on the island. Its presence on Easter Island (based on human remains associated with cooking sites, especially in caves) is supported by oral histories. Kari Kari, Vai Te Mihi and Te Ra'ai are the famous ones, even there's a few others, as well. annual cultural festival in Rapa Nui Under the Köppen climate classification, the climate of Easter Island is classified as a tropical rainforest climate (Af) that borders on a humid subtropical climate (Cfa). Le Festival Tapati est une fête annuelle unique qui retrace la culture Rapanui à travers différentes manifestations ancestrales. The Tapati is centered around a competition between two families/ clans competing in various competitions to earn points. Population at the 2012 census was 5,761 (increased from 3,791 in 2002). Pinochet is reported to have refused to attend the inauguration in protest at pressures from the United States over human rights. Many caves feature in the myths and legends of the Rapa Nui. For example, he states, to severely insult an enemy one would say, "The flesh of your mother sticks between my teeth." [34], One of the highest-quality examples of Easter Island stone masonry is the rear wall of the ahu at Vinapu. [vidéo] Ile de Pâques, l'heure des vérités sur YouTube, réalisé par Thibaud Marchand, "Tournez s'il vous plait Production" 2017. [44], Fishers of Rapa Nui have shown their concern of illegal fishing on the island. These are the three areas with the least low-lying coastal land and, apart from Poike, the furthest areas from Rano Raraku. The validity of this treaty is still contested by some Rapa Nui. Another name, Mata ki te rangi, means "Eyes looking to the sky".[17]. The river is supposedly named after the goddess Tapati the daughter of Surya, the Sun god and Chhaya. They later started burying people in secret caves to save the bones from desecration by enemies. Finally, the trachytic lava domes of Maunga Vai a Heva, Maunga Tea Tea, and Maunga Parehe formed along a NE-SW trending fissure. Worshipped as a Hindu goddess called Yamuna. Islanders are referred to in Spanish as pascuense; however it is common to refer to members of the indigenous community as Rapa Nui. In 1786 Jean-François de La Pérouse visited Easter Island and his gardener declared that "three days' work a year" would be enough to support the population. The island was victimized by blackbirding from 1862 to 1863, resulting in the abduction or killing of about 1,500, with 1,408 working as indentured servants in Peru. There are also only a couple of similarities with the petroglyphs on the island. However, you can see Polynesian dancing shows all around the year (excluding Tapati when they'll perform for free on festival stage). The next edition of the Tapati Rapa Nui will be held from January 27th to February 12nd of 2017. The 52nd installment of the annual culture festival will also be cut short and last one a single week instead of the usual two, after plans to scrap it completely were vetoed by the community. [118], Easter Island's indigenous Rapa Nui toponymy has survived with few Spanish additions or replacements, a fact that has been attributed in part to the survival of the Rapa Nui language.[122]. Rapa Nui [] Noun []. The drug is also known as rapamycin, after Rapa Nui. Deities similar to or like Tapati. Isla Salas y Gómez, 415 km (258 mi) to the east, is closer but is uninhabited. [116] In 2002, 60% were persons of indigenous Rapa Nui origin, 39% were mainland Chileans (or their Easter Island-born descendants) of European (mostly Spanish) or mestizo (mixed European and indigenous Chilean Amerindian) origin and Easter Island-born mestizos of European and Rapa Nui and/or native Chilean descent, and the remaining 1% were indigenous mainland Chilean Amerindians (or their Easter Island-born descendants). [55], Easter Island and surrounding islets, such as Motu Nui and Motu Iti, form the summit of a large volcanic mountain rising over 2,000 m (6,600 ft) from the sea bed. The abandoned and fallen statues near the old roads are found (more often than would be expected from chance) face down on ascending grades and on their backs when headed uphill. Easter Island and Sala y Gómez are surface representations of that chain. Aquesta va començar sent una festa solament per als indígenes, però ara és una instància per a compartir la cultura amb els turistes que arriben en aquesta època de l'any. [16] However, there are two words pronounced pito in Rapa Nui, one meaning 'end' and one 'navel', and the phrase can thus also mean "The Navel of the World". [5], Chile annexed Easter Island in 1888. [61] Easter Island's isolated location exposes it to winds which help to keep the temperature fairly cool. But with over 97% of the population dead or gone in less than a decade, much of the island's cultural knowledge had been lost. Skjølsvold, Arne "Report 14: The Stone Statues and Quarries of Rano Raraku in Thor Heyerdahl and Edwin N. Ferdon Jr. Tapati Rapa Nui, features testosterone-filled tests of strength, daring and endurance interspersed with delicate displays of dance and arts in a two-week fiesta that most of the island’s 5,000-strong population. [117] As of 2012[update] the population density on Easter Island was only 35/km2 (91/sq mi). The eastern portion of the island belonged to the 'Otu 'Itu. A colorful festival is held every February on Easter Island which gives the visitor the opportunity to enjoy a memorable island ‘party.’ A celebration of the Rapanui culture, events range from a statue carving contest to an art festival with works of island art on display and for sale in the town auditorium. Festival de la Tirana. ", "Easter Island, What to learn from the puzzles? Tapati . On this occasion the most important festival of Easter Island coincides with the 50th anniversary of the law 16441 of 1966 by which the rapanui inhabitants obtained the Chilean citizenship. Easter Island shares with Juan Fernández Islands the constitutional status of "special territory" of Chile, granted in 2007. Français : festival tapati sur l'ile de paques. Of the 313 known ahu, 125 carried moai—usually just one, probably because of the shortness of the moai period and transportation difficulties. Administratively, the island is a province of the Valparaíso Region and contains a single commune (comuna). The youngest lava flow, Roiho, is dated at 0.11 Ma. The festival began in the 1970s as a way of maintaining and promoting the Rapa Nui culture amongst the islanders, and in particular for generating interest and a sense of identity amongst the children. Among other researchers on moving and erecting the moai was Vince Lee, who reenacted a moai moving scenario. Tapati Rapa Nui festival ("week festival" in the local language) is an annual two-week long festival celebrating Easter Island culture. Part of the problem is the small amount that has survived: only two dozen texts, none of which remain on the island. [66] In 2018, a New York Times article announced that Easter Island is eroding.[67]. Jared Diamond dismisses past climate change as a dominant cause of the island's deforestation in his book Collapse which assesses the collapse of the ancient Easter Islanders. ", "Easter Island Statues Could Have 'Walked' Into Position", "Introduction to Pacific Islands Archaeology", "What is the Easter Island Statue Project? Polynesians were primarily farmers, not fishermen, and their diet consisted mainly of cultivated staples such as taro root, sweet potato, yams, cassava, and bananas. Le tau'a rapa nui est une sorte de triathlon qui se déroule dans le cratère du volcan Rano Raraku sur une distance d'environ 3 km. Tapati's purpose is not to be a commercial tourist attraction, but it is an authentic celebration among the people of Easter Island. While sculpting was going on, the volcanic stone was splashed with water to soften it. However, land clearing for cultivation and the introduction of the Polynesian rat led to gradual deforestation. Occasionally, heavy rainfall and rainstorms strike the island. [39] Those who remained were mostly older men. Français : festival tapati sur l'ile de paques. The increase in population in the last census was partly caused by the arrival of people of European or mixed European and Native American descent from the Chilean mainland. 2018 Tapati Festival: Friday 2nd – Saturday 17th February The festival began in the 1970s as a way of maintaining and promoting the Rapa Nui culture amongst the islanders, and in particular for generating interest and a sense of identity amongst the children. It has an area of 163.6 km2 (63.2 sq mi), and a maximum elevation of 507 m (1,663 ft) above mean sea level. Il y a régulièrement des accidents, Uri Pate, la légende du haka pei, s'est blessé grièvement lors de l'édition du festival tapati 2016 et a été amené à l’hôpital de Hanga Roa puis à Santiago, le risque d'incendie est aussi présent. Related stone structures called Tupa look very similar to the hare oka, except that the Tupa were inhabited by astronomer-priests and located near the coast, where the movements of the stars could be easily observed. [91] It was raised using traditional methods during a Heyerdahl expedition. Share. According to Carl Friedrich Behrens, Roggeveen's officer, "The natives presented palm branches as peace offerings." Rectifications in radiocarbon dating have changed almost all of the previously posited early settlement dates in Polynesia. Cornelis Bouman, Jakob Roggeveen's captain, stated in his logbook, "... of yams, bananas and small coconut palms we saw little and no other trees or crops." Only about a dozen eventually returned to Easter Island, but they brought smallpox, which decimated the remaining population of 1,500. Lesser cones and other volcanic features include the crater Rano Raraku, the cinder cone Puna Pau and many volcanic caves including lava tubes. Digital recreation of its ancient landscape, with tropical forest and palm trees, The immunosuppressant drug sirolimus was first discovered in the bacterium Streptomyces hygroscopicus in a soil sample from Easter Island. The competitions are a way to maintain and celebrate traditional cultural activities such as cooking, jewelry-making, woodcarving, and canoeing.[115]. Tu'u ko Iho is viewed as the leader who brought the statues and caused them to walk. During his time in power, Pinochet visited Easter Island on three occasions. Île de Pâques : le grand tabou, réalisé par Agnès Molia et Thibaud Marchand ; produit par ARTE France, 2015. The island was largely deforested, and it did not have any trees taller than 3 m (9.8 ft). Easter Island is a volcanic high island, consisting mainly of three extinct coalesced volcanoes: Terevaka (altitude 507 metres) forms the bulk of the island, while two other volcanoes, Poike and Rano Kau, form the eastern and southern headlands and give the island its roughly triangular shape. Tapati Festival Dancing Right now, on the mysterious Easter Island, people will be getting ready for the annual Tapati festival celebrating the Rapa Nui culture. [25] His visit resulted in the death of about a dozen islanders, including the tumu ivi 'atua, and the wounding of many others. From Maharashtra it flows into Gujarat, where its mouth is … [20]:86–91, Estimated dates of initial settlement of Easter Island have ranged from 300 to 1200 CE, though the current best estimate for colonization is in the 12th century CE. Easter Island's latitude is similar to that of Caldera, Chile, and it lies 3,510 km (2,180 mi) west of continental Chile at its nearest point (between Lota and Lebu in the Biobío Region). [31] Deforestation also caused erosion which caused a sharp decline in agricultural production. [86][87] Some upright moai have become buried up to their necks by shifting soils. The Tapati Rapa Nui festival is a two-week-long festival (tapati means “week”, but the festival is longer) that celebrates Easter Island culture. La que comenzó siendo una fiesta solo entre los Rapa Nui, ahora es una instancia para compartir la cultura con los turistas que llegan en esa época del año. However, as in the rest of mainland Chile, the official language used is Spanish. Researchers have noted that the Caleta Anakena landing point provides the island's best shelter from prevailing swells as well as a sandy beach for canoe landings and launchings, so it is a likely early place of settlement. [71] Potential breeding areas for fin whales have been detected off northeast of the island as well.[72]. Settlements also contain hare moa ("chicken house"), oblong stone structures that housed chickens. The island was most likely populated by Polynesians who navigated in canoes or catamarans from the Gambier Islands (Mangareva, 2,600 km (1,600 mi) away) or the Marquesas Islands, 3,200 km (2,000 mi) away. Niño. Ahu Tongariki, one km (0.62 mi) from Rano Raraku, had the most and tallest moai, 15 in total. [82] Cannibalism, however, was widespread across Polynesian cultures. The island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, which were created by the early Rapa Nui people. At the start of November, the municipality announced that the Tapati Festival 2021 would be held without outside visitors for the first time. She is known also as the goddess of the river Tapati and mother - goddess Gandhinagar. The statues found along the transport roads have wider bases than statues installed on ahu; this would facilitate more stable transport. The presence of these reeds, which are called totora in the Andes, was used to support the argument of a South American origin of the statue builders, but pollen analysis of lake sediments shows these reeds have grown on the island for over 30,000 years. However, most married a Rapa Nui spouse. Winters are relatively mild. A series of devastating events killed or removed most of the population in the 1860s. [57] According to Bandy, "...all of the great images of Easter Island are carved from" the light and porous tuff from Rano Raraku. [20]:21–24,27,54–56,64–65, Between 1862 and 1888, about 94% of the population perished or emigrated. Finally, between 0.24 and 0.11 Ma, a 6.5 km (4.0 mi) fissure developed along a NE-SW trend, forming monogenetic vents and rhyolitic intrusions. [85] Although often identified as "Easter Island heads", the statues have torsos, most of them ending at the top of the thighs; a small number are complete figures that kneel on bent knees with their hands over their stomachs. Two types of houses are known from the past: hare paenga, a house with an elliptical foundation, made with basalt slabs and covered with a thatched roof that resembled an overturned boat, and hare oka, a round stone structure. Lack of studies results in poor understanding of the oceanic fauna of Easter Island and waters in its vicinity; however, possibilities of undiscovered breeding grounds for humpback, southern blue and pygmy blue whales including Easter Island and Isla Salas y Gómez have been considered. The island is about 24.6 km (15.3 mi) long by 12.3 km (7.6 mi) at its widest point; its overall shape is triangular. Easter Island's traditional language is Rapa Nui, an Eastern Polynesian language, sharing some similarities with Hawaiian and Tahitian. Easter Island's population was reduced to the point where some of the dead were not even buried.[20]:91. »Informations et conseils pour profiter du plus important festival de l'île de Pâques. Nearly half remained in the quarry at Rano Raraku, and the rest sat elsewhere, presumably on their way to intended locations. : Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo: The Statues That Walked", "Easter Islanders' Weapons Were Deliberately Not Lethal", "Easter Island Statue Project Field Season IV", "Anger on Easter Island after truck crashes into sacred stone statue", "Truck Crashes into an Easter Island Statue", https://www.hangaroa.cl/en/the-easter-island-caves/, https://www.lonelyplanet.com/chile/activities/easter-island-caves-trekking-tour/a/pa-act/v-41148P7/363257, "Easter Island musical stone went from priceless to worthless / Boing Boing", "Pu o Hiro (Hiro's Trumpet) – Easter Island, Chile", "Collections: Arts of the Pacific Islands: Lizard Figure (Moko Miro). Polynesian dancing with feather costumes is on the tourist itinerary. This process seems to have been gradual and may have been aggravated by sheep farming throughout most of the 20th century. This would serve to provide a better centre of gravity for transport. Tapati festival you can see only on February. The native islanders who carved them used only stone hand chisels, mainly basalt toki, which lie in place all over the quarry. For many people, however, the real highlight is a simultaneous Son Jarocho music festival, a three-day romp showcasing traditional Veracruz-style music. Benny Peiser[5] noted evidence of self-sufficiency when Europeans first arrived. Racing in the crater of Rano Raraku volcano, going down a hill on a banana tree trunk, dance and song contests and displays of traditional games all bring the inhabitants together. [97], In 2020, a pickup truck crashed into and destroyed a moai statue due to brake failure. Fossil evidence indicates six species of land birds (two rails, two parrots, one owl, and one heron), all of which have become extinct. The largest moai raised on a platform is known as "Paro". Le haka pei est un sport dangereux, seuls une vingtaine de rapa nui prennent le risque d'y participer. Le dernier jour de la Tapati, les deux équipes forment chacune un cortège avec des chars et de la musique. Its summit collapsed into a caldera which was subsequently filled by the Puakatiki lava cone pahoehoe flows at 0.36 Ma. Estimates of the pre-European population range from 7–17,000. Possible means by which the statues were moved include employment of a miro manga erua, a Y-shaped sledge with cross pieces, pulled with ropes made from the tough bark of the hau tree[90] and tied around the statue's neck. This was called. Les concurrents doivent descendre la colline sur deux troncs de bananiers liés entre eux, le but étant d’arriver le plus loin en étant le plus rapide. Twenty five groups from all the 19 districts of West Bengal participated. In this context, ahu referred to a small structure sometimes covered with a thatched roof where sacred objects, including statues, were stored. Twitter. Date: 14 February 2013, 19:26:34: Source: Own work: Author: Yves Picq: Licensing . Both the province and the commune are called Isla de Pascua and encompass the whole island and its surrounding islets and rocks, plus Isla Salas y Gómez, some 380 km (240 mi) to the east. The winning team has their candidate crowned 'queen' of the island for the next year. The Hanga O Teo embayment is interpreted to be a 200 m high landslide scarp. Français : festival tapati sur l'ile de paques. When the slave raiders were forced to repatriate the people they had kidnapped, carriers of smallpox disembarked together with a few survivors on each of the islands. More Celebrated annually during summer, the festival covers several weeks at the end of January and into February. At least six species of land birds were known to live on the island. However radiocarbon dating concludes that other sites preceded Anakena by many years, especially the Tahai by several centuries. Recent experimental recreations have proven that it is fully possible that the moai were literally walked from their quarries to their final positions by use of ropes, casting doubt on the role that their existence plays in the environmental collapse of the island.[77]. The 14th Ganga Jamuna Natya utsab was held from 24 December 2011 to 4 January 2012 in Kolkata & Madhyamgram. Estas pretenden recrear los deportes ancestrales como: https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tapati&oldid=131009469, Licencia Creative Commons Atribución Compartir Igual 3.0. "Fowls are the only animals they keep. Le but de ce festival est de conserver la culture et les traditions rapa nui. They were arrested by the government, and no injuries were reported.[49]. Plantations were often located farther inland, next to foothills, inside open-ceiling lava tubes, and in other places protected from the strong salt winds and salt spray affecting areas closer to the coast. Since it is close to the South Pacific High and outside the range of the intertropical convergence zone, cyclones and hurricanes do not occur around Easter Island. "[30], By that time, 21 species of trees and all species of land birds became extinct through some combination of over-harvesting, over-hunting, rat predation, and climate change. As of 2011[update] a special charter for the island was under discussion in the Chilean Congress. Heavy erosion and landslides may have buried them in soil. Tapati es una fiesta tradicional celebrada en Rapa Nui que se realiza durante los 10 primeros días de febrero desde 1968. [75] Many researchers[78] point to the climatic downtrend caused by the Little Ice Age as a contributing factor to resource stress and to the palm tree's disappearance. The current hotspot location is speculated to be west of Easter Island, amidst the Ahu, Umu and Tupa submarine volcanic fields and the Pukao and Moai seamounts. This was followed by a decrease in the number of bird bones as birds lost their nesting sites or became extinct. Diffusé en juillet 2016. Like its Chilean counterpart it probably took close to 100 years to reach adult height. [3] This was exacerbated by the loss of land birds and the collapse in seabird populations as a source of food. Easter Island's Tapati Festival is a mix of carnival type activities, sports, theatrical presentations and homage to the island, also known as Rapa Nui. [25]:296–297 The language most similar to Rapa Nui is Mangarevan, with an estimated 80% similar vocabulary. An English translation of the originally Dutch journal by Jacob Roggeveen, with additional significant information from the log by Cornelis Bouwman, was published in: Andrew Sharp (ed. Read more » Felipe González de Ahedo named it Isla de San Carlos ("Saint Charles' Island", the patron saint of Charles III of Spain) or Isla de David (probably the phantom island of Davis Land; sometimes translated as "Davis's Island"[18]) in 1770. See Who's Going to Tapati Rapa Nui 2021 in Hanga Roa, Chile! [57], Poike formed from tholeiitic to alkali basalts from 0.78 to 0.41 Ma. The filling of an ahu was sourced locally (apart from broken, old moai, fragments of which have been used in the fill). Personality rights warning. The phrase appears to have been used in the same sense as the designation of "Land's End" at the tip of Cornwall. In 1966, the Rapa Nui were colonized and given Chilean citizenship. He effectively ruled the island from 1878 until his cession to Chile in 1888. These were then covered with a layer of totora reed, followed by a layer of woven sugarcane leaves, and lastly a layer of woven grass. Theorists have supported this through the agricultural evidence of the sweet potato. He eventually bought up all lands on the island with the exception of the mission, and was its sole employer. The sweet potato was a favoured crop in Polynesian society for generations but it originated in South America, suggesting interaction between these two geographic areas. The houses at the ceremonial village of Orongo are unique in that they are shaped like hare paenga but are made entirely of flat basalt slabs found inside Rano Kao crater. The Maunga Orito obsidian was used to make the "mataa" spearheads. According to National Geographic, "Most scholars suspect that the moai were created to honor ancestors, chiefs, or other important personages, However, no written and little oral history exists on the island, so it’s impossible to be certain."[28]. The tuff contains lithic fragments of older lava flows. Tapati es una fiesta tradicional celebrada en Rapa Nui que se realiza durante los 10 primeros días de febrero desde 1968. Tapati Rapa Nui is a traditional community celebration filled with music, dance and competitive events. Easter Island colonization likely coincided with the arrival of the first settlers in Hawaii. This movement over the Easter hotspot has resulted in the Easter Seamount Chain, which merges into the Nazca Ridge further to the east. The chain has progressively younger ages to the west. Then at about 0.3Ma, cinder cones formed along a NNE-SSW trend on the western rim, while porphyritic benmoreitic lava filled the caldera, and pahoehoe flowed towards the northern coast, forming lava tubes, and to the southeast. Les habitants, divisés en "alliances" représentant d’anciennes castes peuplant l’île, s’affrontent dans une compétition afin de pouvoir choisir la Reine de l’île. Parmi elles, certaines sont plus particulièrement connues et appréciées. Personality rights warning. The entrances to all the houses are very low, and entry requires crawling. Tapati Guha-Thakurta. The remains of palm stumps in different places indicate that humans caused the trees to fall because in large areas, the stumps were cut efficiently. The Rapanui sponsor an annual festival, the Tapati, held since 1975 around the beginning of February to celebrate Rapa Nui culture. Benmoreitic lavas extruded about the rim from 0.35 to 0.34 Ma. The Poike peninsula is on the right. Discover Tapati festival Chile Between the end of January and the beginning of February, the Tapati Festival honours Rapa Nui culture for two weeks. Biography. Bodhan s pin code is 394140 and the postal head office is Bodhan. Français : festival tapati sur l'ile de paques. Rapa Nui – Tapati 2014 ou Comment nous pouvons prétendre avoir marqué l’histoire de l’île de Pâques 3 avril 2014 daggeo 4 commentaires La raison pour laquelle nous sommes restés 10 jours sur l’île de Pâques, c’est que nos dates coïncidaient avec la Tapati Rapa Nui 2014 , un festival local qui nous a fait voir le côté vivant de la culture pascuane. "[33] This cult maintained that, although the ancestors still provided for their descendants, the medium through which the living could contact the dead was no longer statues but human beings chosen through a competition. He returned to Tahiti in December 1888. The Puna Pau crater contains an extremely porous pumice, from which was carved the Pukao "hats". Tapati Rapa Nui Festival features sliding down the steepest volcanic slope on nothing but a banana trunk, Easter Island is the place to be. Although this work is freely licensed or in the public domain, the person(s) shown may have rights that legally restrict certain re-uses unless those depicted consent to such uses. Experts, however, do not agree on when the island's palms became extinct. At the start of November, the municipality announced that the Tapati Festival 2021 would be held without outside visitors for the first time. [citation needed] Experimental archaeology demonstrated that some statues certainly could have been placed on "Y" shaped wooden frames called miro manga erua and then pulled to their final destinations on ceremonial sites. Edmunds.[59]. In 1871 the missionaries, having fallen out with Dutrou-Bornier, evacuated all but 171 Rapa Nui to the Gambier islands. [53], In January 2011, the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous People, James Anaya, expressed concern about the treatment of the indigenous Rapa Nui by the Chilean government, urging Chile to "make every effort to conduct a dialogue in good faith with representatives of the Rapa Nui people to solve, as soon as possible the real underlying problems that explain the current situation". Around 1,000 sites with more than 4,000 petroglyphs are catalogued. [20]:17–18,20–21,31,41–45, By the 15th century, two confederations, hanau, of social groupings, mata, existed, based on lineage. Elles vont de la sculpture à la gastronomie en passant par la peinture corporelle, les chants rituels ou la création d’objets artisanaux. This exemplified the introduction of private property into Rapa Nui. For this reason, most Rapa Nui children now grow up speaking Spanish, and those who do learn Rapa Nui begin learning it later in life. [34], The most important myths are:[citation needed]. Autres résolutions : 160 × 240 pixels | 320 × 480 pixels | 512 × 768 pixels | 682 × 1 024 pixels | 3 456 × 5 184 pixels. The original subtropical moist broadleaf forests are now gone, but paleobotanical studies of fossil pollen, tree moulds left by lava flows, and root casts found in local soils indicate that the island was formerly forested, with a range of trees, shrubs, ferns, and grasses. He worked to develop tourism on the island and was the principal informant for the British and German archaeological expeditions for the island. Topic. Les concurrents sont vêtus d'un pagne et sont pieds nus.. Vaka ama. There the marae is the unpaved plaza before the ahu. [43], After an agreement in 1985 between Chile and United States, the runway at Mataveri International Airport was enlarged and was inaugurated in 1987. In mythology, the daughter of the sun god. Particular forms include:[110]. Although some may believe that rats played a major role in the degradation of the forest, less than 10% of palm nuts show teeth marks from rats. The most visible element in the culture was the production of massive moai statues that some believe represented deified ancestors. La colline mesure 120 mètres et est inclinée à 45°, la descente se fait sur environ 300 mètres et les concurrents peuvent atteindre 80 km/h. In 2012, a 2-day Symposium titled Rural problems & Indian Theatre was organised. La que comenzó siendo una fiesta solo entre los Rapa Nui, ahora es una instancia para compartir la cultura con los turistas que llegan en esa época del año.