Rano Raraku
The quarry that made the moai: Rano Raraku is a crater of consolidated volcanic ash on the lower slopes of Terevaka, on Rapa Nui. For about 500 years, until the early eighteenth century, it supplied the stone for roughly 95 percent of the island's known monolithic sculptures, and 887 moai remain on and around it, some half-buried, some never finished and still lying in the rock face. Coordinates: Wikidata -27.1219/-109.2889, OSM lagoon -27.1219/-109.2892, 0.0 km apart. Sources checked 2026-09-29: CONAF Rapa Nui national park live; UNESCO 715 returned 403 from this seat.
Dated events and their evidence
- 1200 CE mainstream
quarrying begins, supplying about 95 percent of the island's moai source - 1700 CE mainstream
quarrying ends in the early eighteenth century source
Where
27.1219° S, 109.2889° W
Sources
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