Officially Rapa Nui is an island of Chile, belonging to the Valparaíso Region, located in Polynesia, Oceania, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean at 3700 kilometers from Santiago (in a straight line). It has an area of 163,6 km², which makes it the largest of the islands of the Chile insular, and a population of 7750 inhabitants, concentrated in Hanga Roa, capital and only existing town on the island. The island is one of the main tourist destinations in the country due to its nature and the ancestral culture of the Rapanui ethnic group, whose most notable vestige corresponds to huge anthropomorphic statues known as moais. To preserve these characteristics, the Rapa Nui people have administered the Rapa Nui National Park since 2016 through the Ma'u Henua Polynesian Indigenous Community, 7 while UNESCO declared this park as a World Heritage Site in 1995.