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Indigenous sacred sites in Valparaíso, Chile

Explore 8 Indigenous sacred places in Valparaíso, Chile, with mapped locations and detailed site guides.

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Ahu Akivi

Hanga Roa interior, Rapa Nui, Valparaíso Region, Valparaíso, Chile

Ahu Akivi's seven uniform moai stand on an inland pasture, gazing toward the ocean rather than a settlement — the only ahu on Rapa Nui known to do so....

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Ahu Nau Nau

Anakena, Rapa Nui, Valparaíso Region, Valparaíso, Chile

At Anakena's white-sand cove, seven restored moai stand where, according to Rapa Nui tradition, the island's first Polynesian settlers made landfall....

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Ahu Tongariki

Hanga Nui, Rapa Nui, Valparaíso Region, Valparaíso, Chile

Fifteen moai face inland across a hundred-meter stone platform at Hanga Nui bay, backs to the Pacific, watching over a community they were carved to protect....

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Easter Island

Easter Island, Valparaíso, Chile

At the most isolated inhabited place on Earth, a Polynesian people carved nearly a thousand stone figures to embody their ancestors....

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Orongo Ceremonial Village

Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui, Valparaíso Region, Valparaíso, Chile

On the rim of the Rano Kau volcanic crater, low stone houses look out over sheer cliffs toward three offshore islets....

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Rano Raraku

Hanga Roa / Hanga Nui area, Rapa Nui, Valparaíso Region, Valparaíso, Chile

On the slopes of a volcanic crater on Rapa Nui's eastern side, hundreds of moai stand half-buried in the earth where they were carved — some finished, some abandoned...

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Tahai Ceremonial Complex

Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui, Valparaíso Region, Valparaíso, Chile

Tahai gathers three ahu — Ko Te Riku, Tahai, and Vai Uri — into a single coastal complex near Hanga Roa, one of the island's oldest ceremonial sites and, today, its...

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Vinapu Ceremonial Complex

Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui, Valparaíso Region, Valparaíso, Chile

Vinapu's rear wall shows the finest unmortared stonework on Rapa Nui, blocks of basalt cut and fitted with a precision that has drawn comparisons to Inca masonry for...

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