Waiʻanae (Hawaii)

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Waiʻanae is a city and a census-designated place in Honolulu County on Oʻahu in the US state of Hawaii and at the same time the name of the traditional subdistrict (ahupuaʻa) and the district (moku) . The name is Hawaiian , is made up of wai (water) and ʻanae (adult mullet ) and probably alludes to the brackish water ponds in the area where mullets lived. Waiʻanae is with 13,177 inhabitants (2010) on an area of ​​13.2 km² the largest city on the west coast of O'ahu. It is the commercial and cultural center of the area with a mall, post office, public library, employment office and the Leeward Community College , which is part of the University of Hawaii . It has a small marina where excursion boats for tourists leave. The city is located at the mouth of the Kaupuni Stream in the Pōkaʻī Bay . Waiʻanae is tangent to the Hawaii State Route 93 (Farrington Highway) . The distance from Honolulu is 50 kilometers.

The place was a stop of a narrow-gauge railway of the Oahu Railway and Land Company , which led from Honolulu along the west coast to the North Shore .

Demographics

In the 2010 Census , the 13,177 residents gave the following ethnicity: 8.3% "white", 0.8% "black or African American", 14.5% Asian, 22% Hawaiian, 8.5% other Pacific residents, 15.5% "Hispanic", 44.8% multiracial. 37.8% of the population were under 21 years of age.

The coastal region near Waiʻanae is one of the poorest census areas in Hawaii. The Hawaiian population is most affected. It has the largest homeless camp in Hawaii with an area of ​​8 hectares.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Waiʻanae in Hawaiian Dictionaries
  2. ^ Ahupuaʻa in Hawaiian Dictionaries
  3. ↑ moku in Hawaiian Dictionaries
  4. ^ Waiʻanae in Hawaiian Dictionaries ; wai in Hawaiian Dictionaries ; ʻAnae in Hawaiian Dictionaries
  5. ^ Leeward Community College.Retrieved July 21, 2017.
  6. ↑ United States Census Bureau American Fact Finder, accessed July 21, 2017.
  7. ^ Poverty in The United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy Alice O'Connor, page 494, accessed July 22, 2017.
  8. ↑ Hawaii's largest homeless camp: rock bottom or a model refuge? The Guardian, June 22, 2017, accessed July 22, 2017.