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- Puʻukoholā and Mailekini
2440 hits - Agricultural features, Hālawa Valley
2638 hits - Loʻi (wetland taro teraces), Hālawa Valley
1763 hits
This irrigated series of loʻi lies adjacent to the stream, still flowing. - Platform, Hālawa Valley
2217 hits
Not far above the stream. A possible heiau. - Mailekini
2335 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
2442 hits - Moʻokini, 2006
2286 hits - Puʻukoholā, 2006
2353 hits - Moʻokini, 2008
2451 hits - Kupalaha or Kupalahaʻa
3255 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
2529 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
2341 hits - Loʻi (wetland taro terraces) near Kupalahaʻa
2271 hits
This series of loʻi lies along a stream, still running. - Haleokaʻili, 2015
2739 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
2577 hits
Said to be a navigation heiau. - Kukuipahu, 2015
2598 hits
Note Haleakalā in the distance - Kukuipahu, 2018
1019 hits