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Puʻukoholā and Mailekini
2308 hits
Agricultural features, Hālawa Valley
2499 hits
Loʻi (wetland taro teraces), Hālawa Valley
1662 hits
This irrigated series of loʻi lies adjacent to the stream, still flowing.
Platform, Hālawa Valley
2089 hits
Not far above the stream. A possible heiau.
Mailekini
2208 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
2314 hits
Moʻokini, 2006
2151 hits
Puʻukoholā, 2006
2226 hits
Moʻokini, 2008
2323 hits
Kupalaha or Kupalahaʻa
3120 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
2391 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
2213 hits
Loʻi (wetland taro terraces) near Kupalahaʻa
2137 hits
This series of loʻi lies along a stream, still running.
Haleokaʻili, 2015
2607 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
2445 hits
Said to be a navigation heiau.
Kukuipahu, 2015
2462 hits
Note Haleakalā in the distance
Kukuipahu, 2018
918 hits