Rapa Nui National Park

Rapa Nui National Park UNESCO world heritage Moais at Ahu Tongariki National territory:  Chile Type: Culture Criteria : i, iii, v Reference No .: 715 UNESCO region : Latin America and the Caribbean History of enrollment Enrollment: 1995  (session 19)

Rapa Nui National Park IUCN Category II - National Park Moai statues location Easter island surface 71.3 km² WDPA ID 115 Geographical location 27 ° 4 ′  S , 109 ° 21 ′  W Coordinates: 27 ° 4 ′ 22 "  S , 109 ° 20 ′ 55"  W Setup date 1935 administration Corporación Nacional Forestal

The Rapa Nui National Park , in Spanish Parque nacional Rapa Nui , is a protected area on Easter Island , which belongs to Chile . It was designated as a World Heritage Site in 1995 and is around 71 km² in size.

The park should curb the overexploitation of nature, especially through deforestation. Among other things, the Toromiro tree, on whose trunks the well-known Moai statues were probably transported, is now considered to be extinct.

The national park was established on January 16, 1935 by the Chilean government by decree No. 103 (Ministerio de Tierras y Colonización) and declared a national monument on July 23 of the same year by decree No. 4536. The area was slightly changed several times in the following decades. By decree No. 147 of the Ministerio de Agricultura, the national park was placed under the administration of the Corporación Nacional Forestal (CONAF). In 2014 the park had over 65,000 visitors.

Web links

Commons : Rapa Nui National Park  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rapa Nui National Park. UNESCO World Heritage Convention, accessed September 29, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Political priority for biodiversity. (PDF) WWF Germany , 2014, p. 13 , accessed on September 29, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Background information: Extinct species. (PDF) WWF Germany, 2012, accessed on September 29, 2016 .