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- Puʻukoholā and Mailekini
2459 hits - Agricultural features, Hālawa Valley
2655 hits - Loʻi (wetland taro teraces), Hālawa Valley
1780 hits
This irrigated series of loʻi lies adjacent to the stream, still flowing. - Platform, Hālawa Valley
2236 hits
Not far above the stream. A possible heiau. - Mailekini
2353 hits
Mailekini is said to have the shape of a whale when viewed from above. It lies just below Puʻukoholā and above a shark heiau under the water in the bay below: Haleokapuni. - Moʻokini, 2006
2459 hits - Moʻokini, 2006
2303 hits - Puʻukoholā, 2006
2375 hits - Moʻokini, 2008
2469 hits - Kupalaha or Kupalahaʻa
3274 hits
A natural sea cave with a collapsed roof within Kupalaha Heiau. Twenty years ago, a older resident of Kohala commented that the collapsed roof of this cave was just a small opening in his youth. The name is spelled differently in different sources. If it is Kupalaha, then the name is identical to that of the heiau for the sun, located where the bandstand is now at Kapiʻolani Park, Waikīkī. - Kapālama
2546 hits
An interior feature - perhaps modern - at Kapālama Heiau, which never had a large stone structure. A few disturbed areas of ʻiliʻili (paving) remain, and a few alignments. - Kupalaha or Kupalahaʻa
2359 hits - Loʻi (wetland taro terraces) near Kupalahaʻa
2291 hits
This series of loʻi lies along a stream, still running. - Haleokaʻili, 2015
2762 hits
A few low features remain, mostly under the grass. Despite its modest appearance, this was an important heiau, where Kamehameha ʻekahi (I) kept the kiʻi of one of his gods. - Holomoana, 2015
2595 hits
Said to be a navigation heiau. - Kukuipahu, 2015
2617 hits
Note Haleakalā in the distance - Kukuipahu, 2018
1031 hits