Conformed by stone houses with elliptic shape that offer a perfect vision towards the three islets (or Motu) located right in front of Rano Kau. This Village was inhabited only during the days when the Taƞata Manu competition was celebrated in spring, in which each clan would compete to get the first egg of the Manutara bird to become the governors of the island. 

The first stone houses in Orongo seem to be built around 1.400 a.c. from the rocks that are nowadays in the center of the village.

Right in the beginning of the village, in the side that faces the crater of the volcano Rano Kau, you can see the remains of a small Ahu or platform where there’s still the base of an unique Moai, the famous Hoa Hakananai’a, which was taken in 1868 by the crew of a British war ship, “Topaze”. This Moai is located since then in the British Museum in London.

In front of the Ahu you can find little holes in the stones that seem to have been used as an astronomical observatory to determine the position of the sun.