Maunga Puna Pau is a small crater or cinder cone and prehistoric quarry on the outskirts of Hanga Roa in the south west of Easter Island (a Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean). Puna Pau gives its name to one of the seven regions of the Rapa Nui National Park.

Puna Pau is a small extinct volcano where the pukao, the red headdresses that crowned the statues of Easter Island, were extracted and carved.

Puna Pau is a quarry in a small crater or cinder cone on the outskirts of Hanga Roa in the south west of Easter Island (a Chileanisland in the Pacific Ocean). Puna Pau also gives its name to one of the seven regions of the Rapa Nui National Park.

La visita a la cantera del volcán Puna Pau, donde se extrajeron y tallaron los pukao, resulta recomendable para comprender cómo realizaron los grandes cilindros rojos que adornaban las estatuas. En Puna Pau se cierra un ciclo que comenzó varios siglos antes con el tallado de los moai en Rano Raraku.

Puna Pau is the quarry where the red stone for the pukao, or topknot, for the moai statues comes from. In the later period of moai statue carving, a final decoration was build for the statues - a huge red block of stone on the head of the moais.

The pukao is an ornament, made of red scoria from the crater of Puna Pau, which was placed on the head of the statues of the most important ceremonial platforms of Easter Island.

Puna Pau is a small extinct volcano located about 7km Northeast of Hanga Roa. Inside the crater there is a large deposit of Red Scoria which has been of great importance to the Rapa Nui people over history .

Discover the history and utility of Puna Pau during your visit. This paradise in the South Pacific emerged approximately 3 million years ago, as a result of underwater eruptions that gave life to the imposing Ma'uŋa Terevaka, the volcanic epicenter of the island.

Puna Pau. Located about 7 kilometers northeast of Hanga Roa. Inside the Puna Pau crater there is a red slag quarry that was once an important source of raw material for the Rapanui.

2025年1月1日 · Puna Pau is where almost all of the pukao came from. On the hillside you can see some of these giant red stones that never made their final destination. If you look closely some of them have petroglyphs.