🏛️ Rapa Nui National Park

Chile · Oceania · Cultural · 27.11°S, 109.35°W

Easter Island is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The island is renowned for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, which were 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. Easter Island is also the only territory in Polynesia where Spanish is an official language.

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Quick facts

Country	Chile
Continent / region	Oceania
List type	🏛️ Cultural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)	27.11°S, 109.35°W · view on map

Rapa Nui National Park is a cultural World Heritage site in Chile, in Oceania. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Rapa Nui National Park was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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