Rano Raraku
Rano Raraku is a volcanic crater formed of consolidated volcanic ash, or tuff, and located on the lower slopes of Terevaka in the Rapa Nui National Park on Easter Island in Chile.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 107 metres
- Description: volcanic crater on Easter Island
- Also known as: “Rano Raraku (volcano)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Motu Nui and Motu Iti.
Motu Nui
Islet
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Motu Nui is the largest of the islets located off the southwestern coast of Easter Island and constitutes the westernmost point of Chile. Covering an area of 3.9 hectares, it is the summit of a submerged volcanic mountain that rises over 2,000 meters from the seafloor.
Motu Iti
Islet
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Motu Iti, or Little island in the Rapa Nui language, is a small uninhabited islet near Motu Nui, about a mile from Rano Kau on the south western corner of Easter Island, a Chilean island in the Pacific.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Orongo and Hanga Roa.
Orongo
Locality
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Orongo is a stone village and ceremonial center at the southwestern tip of Rapa Nui. It consists of a collection of low, sod-covered, windowless, round-walled buildings with even lower doors positioned on the high south-westerly tip of the large volcanic caldera called Rano Kau.
Hanga Roa
Town
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Hanga Roa is the main town, harbour, and seat of Easter Island, a municipality of Chile. It is located in the southern part of the island's west coast, in the lowlands between the extinct volcanoes of Terevaka and Rano Kau. Hanga Roa is situated 4½ km north of Rano Raraku.
Rano Raraku
- Categories: volcanic crater, volcanic cone, and landform
- Location: Chile, South America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Rano Raraku” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “رانو راراكو”
- Basque: “Rano Raraku”
- Catalan: “Rano Raraku”
- Cebuano: “Rano Raraku”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕانۆ ڕاراکو”
- Chinese: “拉諾拉拉庫”
- Czech: “Rano Raraku”
- Dutch: “Rano Raraku”
- Esperanto: “Rano Raraku”
- French: “Rano Raraku”
- Georgian: “რანო-რარაკუ”
- German: “Rano Raraku”
- Indonesian: “Rano Raraku”
- Italian: “Rano Raraku”
- Japanese: “ラノ・ララク”
- Kazakh: “Рано Рараку”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rano Raraku”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rano Raraku”
- Norwegian: “Rano Raraku”
- Polish: “Rano Raraku”
- Portuguese: “Rano Raraku”
- Russian: “Рано-Рараку”
- Slovenian: “Rano Raraku”
- Spanish: “Rano Raraku”
- Spanish: “Silla de San Carlos”
- Swedish: “Rano Raraku (vulkan i Chile)”
- Swedish: “Rano Raraku”
- Turkish: “Rano Raraku”
- Ukrainian: “Рано-Рараку”
- “Rano Raraku”
- “Ranoraraku”
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