Archaeological sites in Chile

Polynesian island and special territory of Chile

thumb|330px|Moai facing inland at Ahu Tongariki, restored by Chilean archaeologist Claudio Cristino in the 1990s

town in Chile

Chilean national park, in Easter Island

island in Chile

archaeological site in Llanquihue Province, Chile

Purén is a city (2002 pop. 12,868) and commune in Malleco Province of La Araucanía Region, Chile. It is located in the west base of the Cordillera de Nahuelbuta (650 km. south of Santiago). The economical activity of Purén is based in forest exploitation and agriculture. The most characteristic product of Purén is the white strawberry which is one of two species of strawberry that were hybridized to create the modern garden strawberry.

protected area in Chile

geoglyph in Chile

island in Chile

thumb|right|250px|Ahu Ature on Anakena Beach. Anakena is a white coral sand beach in Rapa Nui National Park on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), a Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean. Anakena has two ahus; Ahu-Ature has a single moai and Ahu Nao-Nao has seven, two of which have deteriorated. It also has a palm grove and a car park.

thumb|Map of the location of Orongo on Easter Island Orongo (, ; ) is a stone village and ceremonial center at the southwestern tip of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). 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. Below Orongo on one side a 300-meter barren cliff face drops down to the ocean; on the other, a more gentle but still very steep grassy slope leads down to a freshwater marsh inside the high caldera.

national park in Chile

cave and archaeological site in Patagonia

human settlement

ahu on Easter Island

thumb|350px|The complex seen from the east at sunrise thumb|200px|Ahu Ko Te Riku, with the restored eyes thumb|200px|Ahu Vai Ure The Tahai Ceremonial Complex is an archaeological site on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chilean Polynesia. Restored in 1974 by American archaeologist William Mulloy, Tahai comprises three principal ahu from north to south: Ko Te Riku (with restored eyes), Tahai, and Vai Ure. Visible in the distance from Tahai are two restored ahu at Hanga Kio'e, projects that Mulloy undertook in 1972. Like other Mulloy restoration projects at Ahu Akivi, the ceremonial village of Orongo

ahu on Easter Island

300px|thumb|right|Remains of the Tulor settlement near San Pedro de Atacama Tulor is an archaeological site located in the Norte Grande natural region of the Antofagasta Region, Chile near San Pedro de Atacama. The site is a former village complex with an area of and 22 outlying edifices. The settlement's remains are distributed in an east-west fashion along . Radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dating date the origin of the settlement sometime between 380 BCE and 200 CE, but most structures are from the period 800 CE - 1200 CE. Architectural characteristics of Tulor are circular walls are made

archaeological site containing the remains of a promaucae fortress, later used by the Incas, located on the large hill overlooking the village of La Compañia, Graneros, Chile, It is the southernmost building which remains of the Inca Empire

Saltpan in Antofagasta Region, Chile

village in Arica and Parinacota Region, Chile