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This picture is a sign saying this is the Waikiki Ahupua’a. This is important because there are signs posted all around the Hawaiian island saying where and which Ahupua’a is went as you enter the area

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This website shows a more surrent view of what the Ahupua'a looks like now with all the houses and buildings.

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This is an interactive site that allows people to explore different and other places. You are able to observe what Streets are in each Ahupua'a.

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Ahupuaa Layer (Historic Land Divisions), including names with diacritical marks. Source: Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), October, 2009; various corrections made by DLNR, SHPD - 2017, 2021, 2024.

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This database hold records of each and every historical site that is in the Waikiki Ahupua'a. This database also has the information on each land division that is in this Ahupua'a.

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The map applications and map data are provided “as-is” and are not legal surveys or legal descriptions. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs explicitly disclaims any representations and warranties as to the accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of maps and data. These maps and data are created from multiple city, county, state and federal sources, and the source data may contain errors. These maps and data should not be used for navigational, tracking, or any other purpose requiring exacting measurement of distance or direction. In no event will the Office of Hawaiian Affairs or its officers or employees be liable for any losses or damages that might arise from the use of the maps and data. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs shall assume no liability for any decisions made or actions taken or not taken by the user of the maps and data. As it relates to these maps and map data and to the greatest extent permitted by law, all immunities and privileges provided by Hawaii common law are applicable and fully reserved by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

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This article talks about the how the land was used and how the Chiefs split up the land and how everything was ran.

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Waikīkī Ahupuaʻa • Manoa Heritage Center

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What is an ahupuaʻa? Over time, Hawaiians developed a unique land management system. Coinciding with Kirch’s Expansion Period, Māʻilikūkāhi, was said to have established the ahupuaʻa land division in the 1500s. Ahupuaʻa are further divisions of the moku and were used for the purposes of collecting tax tributes to the chief and efficiently managing land […]

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This gave a history of what the Waikiki Ahupua’a is. Very informational details about the response and wetlands. Talked about how agriculture worked in the land and sea. How to give a timeline of what was happening in Waikiki too. Mention the importance and why they built the Ala Wai Canal.

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Hundreds of years ago, Native Hawaiians played in the surf, farmed the land, fished from the sea, and lived sustainably in the ahupua'a of Waikīkī. Pristine coral reefs with over 20 different species of coral and teeming colorful fish lived close enough to the shore to reach out and touch.

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This website allows you to look at the place names that are located inside of this ahupua'a. Go more into the detail of each place name that is located in Waikiki Ahupua’a

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In this picture, it is a map of the different type of Mokus on Oahu. It is split up and you are able to see each and every Moku and Ahupua'a on Oahu. In this picture it allows you to see how high up the mountin Waikiki Ahupua'a is and the area of it.

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This article talks about the Waikiki streams.This is very important because this was the water source that led from the mountains to the sea that provided the resource for agriculture to grow.

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The present Waikīkī has a land area of approximately 500-acres; it once was a vast marshland whose boundaries encompassed more than 2,000-acres.

Consistent with the character of the swampy land of ancient Waikīkī, where water from the upland valleys would gush forth from underground, the name Waikīkī, which means "water spurting from many sources."

Three main valleys Makiki, Mānoa, and Pālolo are mauka of Waikīkī and through them their respective streams (and springs in Mānoa (Punahou and Kānewai)) watered the marshland below.

As they entered the flat Waikīkī Plain (and merge and separate,) the names of the streams changed; the Mānoa became the Kālia and the Pālolo became the Pāhoa (they joined near Hamohamo (now an area mauka of the Kapahulu Library.))

While at the upper elevations, the streams have the ahupuaʻa names, at lower elevations, after merging/dividing, they have different names, as they enter the ocean, Pi'inaio, 'Āpuakēhau and Kuekaunahi.

The Pi'inaio (Makiki) entered the sea at Kālia (near what is now Fort DeRussy as a wide delta (kahawai.))

The 'Āpuakēhau (Mānoa and Kālia,) also called the Muliwai o Kawehewehe ("the stream that opens the way" on some maps,) emptied in the ocean at Helumoa (between the Royal Hawaiian and Moana Hotels.)

The Kuekaunahi (Pālolo) once emptied into the sea at Hamohamo (near the intersection of 'Ōhua and Kalākaua Avenues.) The land between these three streams was called Waikolu, meaning "three waters."

The early Hawaiian settlers, who arrived around 1000 AD, gradually transformed the marsh into hundreds of taro fields, fish ponds and gardens. Waikīkī was once one of the most productive agricultural areas in old Hawai'i.

Beginning in the 1400s, a vast system of irrigated taro fields and fish ponds were constructed. This field system took advantage of streams descending from Makiki, Mānoa and Pālolo valleys which also provided ample fresh water for the Hawaiians living in the ahupua'a.

By the time of the arrival of Europeans in the Hawaiian Islands during the late eighteenth century, Waikīkī had long been a center of population and political power on O'ahu.

Following the Great Māhele in 1848, many of the fishponds and irrigated and dry-land agricultural plots were continued to be farmed, however at a greatly reduced scale (due to manpower limitations.)

In the 1860s and 1870s, former Asian sugar plantation workers (Japanese and Chinese) replaced the taro and farmed more than 500-acres of wetlands in rice fields, also raising fish and ducks in the ponds.

By 1892, Waikīkī had about 550-acres planted in rice, representing almost 12% of the total 4,700-acres planted in rice on O'ahu.

Nearly 85% of present Waikīkī (most of the land west of the present Lewers Street or mauka of Kalākaua) were in wetland agriculture or aquaculture.

However, drainage problems started to develop in Waikīkī from the late nineteenth century because of urbanization, when roads were built and expanded in the area (thereby blocking runoff) and when a drainage system for land from Punchbowl to Makiki diverted surface water to Waikīkī.

During the 1920s, the Waikīkī landscape would be transformed when the construction of the Ala Wai Drainage Canal, begun in 1921 and completed in 1928, resulted in the draining and filling in of the remaining ponds and irrigated fields of Waikīkī.

Soon after, in 1928, the construction of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel was completed (joining the Moana Hotel (1901,) marking the beginning of Waikīkī as a world-class tourist attraction.

The image shows a Google Earth base image with the streams, ponds and loʻi/rice fields that were noted on an 1893 map of the region.

(The dark blue notes the streams (Piʻinaio, Āpuakēhau and Kuekaunahi (L to R)) - the far right water feature is part of Kapiʻolani Park, including McKee Island.) The light blue notes the fishponds and the green notes the areas that were once in taro loʻi and then rice cultivation. The yellow line notes the shoreline in 1893.)
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The present Waikīkī has a land area of approximately 500-acres; it once was a vast marshland whose boundaries encompassed more than 2,000-acres. Three main valleys Makiki, Mānoa, and Pālolo are...

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In this website it shows the different streams that are connected to the other one. Showing each and every name of the stream. where there is the streams in Makiki valley, Manoa Valley or for Palolo Valley and all led to the other way and was a part of the Waikiki Ahupua’a

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Imagining an Alternative Tourist industry in Hawaii by offering unique tours of Hawaii’s past and present realities, focusing in particular on Waikiki.

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This a picture of the Waikapu Ahupua'a sign.

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This is a map of Maui. IN the picture it should each moku and the ahupua'as in the moku.

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This article talks about the Land Development that is going on in Waikapu and how the land is already being used.

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In this article it talks about the landscape of the Ahupua'a.

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The island of Maui is comprised of 12-moku (districts,) that are made up of a number of ahupuaʻa. The moku of Wailuku makes up an area known as Nā Wai ʻEhā (“The Four Great Waters”) –…

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This article talks about the history of Waikapu. Talking about the very past to the present.

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This gives a historical background on both ahupua’a.  and how it changed over time, even having talking to all about the sugar cane industry.

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Nā Wai ʻEhā Information - Hui o Nā Wai ʻEhā

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This well-known saying attests to the traditional, historical, and cultural significance of the four ahupuaʻa within the moku of Wailuku and their fresh water resources. Nā Wai 'Ehā, was once the largest contiguously cultivated loʻi kalo growing region in all of Hawaiʻi. It also served as the primary ritual, political, and population center of Maui.

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This website talks about the streams that are around maui. And what is needed to be done to save it.

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Maui has 12 districts called Moku. Each Moku functioned as a large land unit, and each Moku was controlled by a chief. Our project site is in the Moku of Kula in south-west Maui.

On Maui there are 141 Ahupua'a. Each Ahupua'a is a land division that runs from the highlands to the sea, generally in a wedge shape, they make have narrower widths on the upslope/uphill (mauka) side, and then widen out closer to the shoreline. (although some ahupua'a vary from the classic idealized wedge-shape).

Ahupua'a generally follow the hydrology of natural valleys and their borders follow the ridgelines that separate the valleys. Each Ahupua'a has at least one stream bed that runs along the floor of the ahupua'a. Permanent (perennial) or temporary (ephemeral) streams may run along these gulches and stream beds.

In Kula-Kai, the current climate that we know today is dry, and also being located on the leeward side of Haleakala, the average rainfall here is much lower than the on the windward side. In former times however, the forested highlands cooled the climate more than today and a wetter climate likely prevailed. So, the drier streambeds we see today could have easily flowed with water.

These days, water still flows in these streams, although much of it flows underground along subsurface pathways. This groundwater makes its way to the sea where it empties out in underwater springs under the ocean.

In many places where the groundwater breaks the surface, springs appear, and these springs sometimes form pools and wetlands. Many of these freshwater pools are still seen today in the form of wetlands of various types. Some of these are little more than muddy bogs, or saturated soil. Yet many of these will change seasonally and vary with passing rainfall. But there are also some persistent water bodies that have perennial (permanent) surface water and support abundant plant and animal life.

These permanent springs and wetlands form a special habitat that creates an environmental niche in the ecosystem. Many highly adapted species of birds for example depend on these wetlands to survive.

Kula Kai is special: The area we call Kihei today was known in former times as Kula Kai. "Kula" because it is in the Moku of Kula, and "Kai" because it is on the ocean side. In this area, there are several ahupua'a that each has a stream, a gulch, and associated wetlands. As a testament to this, ancient Hawaiians built their settlements on the banks of these streams, and freshwater pools, and they exploited these natural wetlands for their agriculture. They also modified the wetland landscape to creating Loi kalo (taro patches) and Loko I'a (fishponds). In Kula Kai there ae at least four stunning wall type Loko i'a that were built for the benefit of royalty.

The "four royal fishponds" we see today are relatively close together, but each one is located at the mouth of its own freshwater stream, and adjacent to the modern day coastal wetlands. Each of these stream mouths has at least one wetland associated with it, and at least four of these coastal wetlands are associated with the fishponds.

You can easily imagine that in former times a wetter climate created an abundance of freshwater pools, springs, and ponds. There were large settlements here, and productive aquaculture growing and harvesting fish and other food products. What is also worth mentioning is that these Hawaiian architects studied nature and appreciated natural features. This is why they located their settlements in this area and built around these natural wetlands and streams.

Later on, they modified these natural features to improve the benefits. For example, widening streambeds to make lo'i kalo, and Lo'i i'a, as well as creating the large nearshore stone-walled fishponds. The fact that Hawaiians built their ahupua'a and agricultural systems around theses streams and wetlands, makes the wetlands of today, sites not only natural beauty, but also of cultural and archeological significance. It is not uncommon to find ancient archeological features such as heiau (temples) in and around the wetlands and streambeds in Kula Kai.

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Wetland's role in Ahupua'a - SAVE THE WETLANDS

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Maui has 12 districts called Moku. Each Moku functioned as a large land unit, and each Moku was controlled by a chief. Our project site is in the Moku of Kula in [...]

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This article talks about the homestead on Waikapu. I feel like this is important because this is land for the Hawaiians to live on.

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Renaming the Hawaiian Homestead Community in the Waikapū Ahupuaʻa to Puʻuhona HHA

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Prepared by Rebecca Kapolei Kiili with source information curated by Hōkūao Pellegrino

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This website gives the demographics of the people who live there now. I feel like it is important to write about this because it is important to know how it is used now to compare it on how it was used back then.

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Waikapu Ahupuaa Wailuku, HI Overview: Weichert.com

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One of the nation’s leading providers of full-service real estate. View over 2 million real estate listings & homes for sale.

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