Kipahulu

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Coordinates: 20 ° 39 ′ 39 ″  N , 156 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W.

historical district of Kīpahulu.

Kīpahulu is a municipality-free area in the Hāna district in the southeast of the island of Maui .

Location and accessibility

Kīpahulu is located south of Hāna and east of Kaupō . The place can be reached by land from the north via the Road to Hāna or from the west via the Piʻilani Highway ( Hawaii State Route 31 ), which was reopened in 2008 after almost two years of closure due to earthquake damage. The Piʻilani Highway is the only main road in Kīpahulu and all populated areas are along this road.

Kīpahulu has no electricity or water supply. The only public utility company is the telephone network. Water is obtained from the streams that flow down from Haleakalā . The Kaupō Ranch maintains a small dam and a water pipe to supply the residents.

history

The first written description of Kīpahulu was written by Jean-François de La Pérouse in 1786 when he was sailing along the southeast coast of Maui in search of an anchorage:

“I drove along the coast a league distance . [...] We saw water falling in cascades. [...] The inhabitants are so numerous that one can assume a range of 3–4 leagues for a single village. The huts are on the coast, so the habitable part of the island is less than half a leuge. After passing Kaupō there are no more waterfalls to be seen and the villages become fewer. "

The plains of Kīpahulu were once densely populated. The area comprised hundreds of fields and agricultural terraces that could support hundreds of people and was formerly the center of one of the ancient districts (moku) . During archaeological investigations in the near coastal area, over 700 archaeological remains were found in the examined 8.1 km², including stone mounds, walls and earth terraces.

These coastal villages consisted of groups of houses for large families ( Hawaiian : ʻohana ) and included living quarters, cooking houses and huts for workshops, storage rooms and canoes. Other residential buildings, which were used occasionally, were higher up in the entire cultivation area. All houses were single-storey, one-room timber frame buildings with walls and roofs covered with plant material. Small stone shrines belonged to the village settlements.

With the development of the island's whaling industry in the 1880s, Kīpahulu's population began to decline as people moved to major whaling ports such as Lāhainā .

In the early 1900s, Kīpahulu was one of the regularly used ports for the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company . Steam ships provided passenger service around Maui and between the islands. The port also offered farmers and ranchers the opportunity to put their goods on the market. Today the area of ​​the former landing site is privately owned but is protected by The Nature Conservancy .

Attractions

  • Laulima fruit stand

  • Pool of water in ʻOheʻo Gulch

  • ʻOheʻo Gulch ( Seven Sacred Pools )

  • Waimoku Falls

Haleakalā National Park

The Haleakala National Park was established in 1960 as an independent unit of the National Park system. At that time the park consisted only of the Haleakalā crater area. On March 26, 1951, the Kīpahulu Valley was added to the Haleakalā National Park (HNP) as a Kīpahulu Biological Reserve to ensure the protection of endangered ecosystems within the protected area. Eighteen years later, on January 10, 1969, the HNP's borders were expanded to include the coastal area of ​​Kīpahulu of ʻOheʻo.

Although access to the Kīpahulu Biological Reserve has been strictly restricted to researchers and managers, the 'Ohe'o region of the park is accessible for recreational purposes. Attractions include the ʻOheʻo Pools, often referred to as the Seven Sacred Pools (a name coined by tourism officials), a car-accessible campsite, and several serviced trails like the four-mile Pīpīwai Loop Trail to Waimoku Waterfall. Kīpahulu ʻOhana, a non-profit community organization founded in 1995 through a collaborative arrangement with Haleakalā National Park to revive, restore and share the practices of traditional Hawaiian culture, also conducts community-based cultural tours in the region.

Web links

Commons : Kīpahulu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kipahulu in Hawaiian Dictionaries
  2. ↑ Road between Kaupō and Kipahulu reopens . October 8, 2008.
  3. ↑ Haleakala National Park (NP) General Management Plan (GMP), Maui County: environmental impact statement, 1995, p. 50
  4. ↑ A Piece of Historic Kipahulu Is Conserved .
  5. ↑ Conservancy's Maui sale is a designer deal .
  6. ↑ Waimoku Falls .
  7. ^ Park History