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Kalepolepo Fishpond, known by its older name Koʻieʻi.e.Loko Iʻa, is an ancient Hawaiian fishpond estimated to have been built between 1400 and 1500 AD.. The fishpond is located in Kalepolepo Park in Kihei, Maui.
Kihei (Hawaiian: Kīhei, pronounced) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 21,423 at the 2020 census . Geography
Tide tables, sometimes called tide charts, are used for tidal prediction and show the daily times and levels of high and low tides, usually for a particular location. [1] Tide heights at intermediate times (between high and low water) can be approximated by using the rule of twelfths or more accurately calculated by using a published tidal ...
In the rainy winter season, high water levels enlarge the freshwater pond to more than 400 acres (1.6 km 2). [7] [8] By spring, water levels begin dropping [9] and by summer, the pond shrinks to half its winter size, leaving a salty residue behind: this accounts for its name, "Kealia", meaning "salt encrusted place"; [7] Coastal salt pans once produced the mineral from seawater. [4]
This is a list of rivers and streams in Hawaii . Modern maps show some 360 streams in the Hawaiian Islands . However, because of the small size of the islands in comparison with continental areas, there are very few navigable rivers anywhere in the islands.
Public access to the bay is easily made through the city and county beach park off of Kalanianaʻole Highway across from Hawaii Kai Drive. [3] Despite the tide height, this bay and reef are always accessible to watercraft, standup paddlers, fishers, and kayakers. At low tide, people can walk out on the sandbar and explore the nearby reef.
The South Maui Coastal Heritage Corridor is a recreation and tourism project of the Tri-Isle Resource Conservation and Development Council. The non-profit council partners with the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture .
Established in 1973, ʻĀhihi-Kīnaʻu Natural Area Reserve includes a coastal lava field and surrounding waters on the southwest coast of the island of Maui, Hawaii. It consists of 1,238 acres (501 ha) on land and 807 acres (327 ha) of ocean along 3 miles (4.8 km) of Maui's southwestern coastline.