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  Waipio, Hawaii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Waipi'o is a town located in the Ewa District of the Island of O'ahu in the City and County of Honolulu.
Waipi'o is located at 21°25'5" North, 157°59'53" West (21.418050, -157.997988)
In this same area south of Waipi'o is the interchange between Hawai'i Interstates H-1 and H-2.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Waipio,_Hawaii   (474 words)

  
 bnbHawaii.com | Waipio Valley on the Big Island of Hawaii
Located along the Hamakua Coast on the northeast shore of the Big Island of Hawaii, the Waipio Valley is the largest and most southern of the seven valleys on the windward side of the Kohala Mountains.
The Waipio Valley, a mile wide at the coastline and almost six miles deep, is rich in Hawaiian history.
The Waipio Valley is often referred to as the "Valley of the Kings" because it was once the home to many of the rulers of Hawaii.
www.bnbhawaii.com /hawaii_waipio.asp   (655 words)

  
 Waipio Valley Tours - Waipio Valley Shuttle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Waipio, the land of Curving Water, is one of the scenic wonders of Hawaii.
Waipio Valley once housed the kings of ancient Hawaii and served as a retreat for Hawaiian royalty.
When Waipio was discovered in 1823, the valley was adorned with taro patches, banana trees, fish ponds, several heiau and a place of refuge, Pakaalana.
www.waipiovalleytour.com   (362 words)

  
 Waipio Valley Vacation Rentals, Hotels, Weather, Map and Attractions
Waipio is the largest of the seven valleys on the “windward” side of the island, and is considered by many to be the most beautiful place on Earth.
Waipio Valley can be accessed only by four-wheel drive, horseback, or you can take a horse drawn cart tour of it that way.
The towns surrounding Waipio Valley are from the sugar plantation era, and the small, friendly community in the Valley is a nice place to relax and stroll around and enjoy the peaceful ambiance and gorgeous views.
www.hawaiianvacation.com /regions/Waipio-Valley-Hawaii.html   (559 words)

  
 Let's Go Hawaii - Waipio Valley
cated along the Hamakua Coast on the northeastern coast of the Big Island of Hawai'i, Waipi'o Valley is the largest and southernmost of the seven valleys on the windward side of the Kohala Mountains.
Waipi'o is a mile wide at the coast and almost six miles deep.
Once you descend into the valley, the direction of your hike is up to you; the valley is wide open and wonderful jungle trees, rivers, and Hawaiian animals stretch in all directions.
www.letsgo-hawaii.com /waipio   (472 words)

  
 Waipio Valley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Waipio Valley is certainly not hidden - in fact, looking down into the breathtaking valley from the roadside lookout is an awesome experience.
Waipio has 60-100 residents, a mixture of farmers of Hawaiian, Japanese and Chinese ancestry and haoles looking for seclusion and self-sufficient life-style.
Many Hawaiian alii were buried in Waipio where a section of the beach is called lua o milu, doorway to the land of the dead.
www.hawaiiinfoguide.com /hawaii_waipio.htm   (514 words)

  
 WAIPIO VALLEY OVERLOOK
Waipio Valley is the first of seven valley's along the Kohala coast.
Waipio Valley was formed from runoff processes, ground water sapping, and mass wasting.
Waipio Valley is characterized as a groundwater sapping valley evidenced by its U-shaped valley profile, its amphitheater-like head, sharp floor to slope junctions, hanging valleys, and extremely steep valley walls.
www.uwec.edu /jolhm/Hawaii2005/Day4/WAIPIO/overlook.htm   (114 words)

  
 WATER-RELATED ACTIVITIES OF USGS IN HAWAII-- Base-Flow Hydrology of Waipio Valley, Island of Hawaii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Waipio Valley is a location of cultural and historic significance to the Hawaiian people.
A minimum of 10 base-flow measurements will be made at five low-flow stations upstream of the four intakes to the Lower Hamakua Ditch and at the downstream limit of the study area in the lower reach of the valley.
The mass balance model for the streams in Waipio Valley will take the form of base flow at the end of the study reach minus base flow downstream from the ditch intakes equals ground water inflow in the reach.
hi.water.usgs.gov /projects/project_waipio.htm   (776 words)

  
 Castle & Cooke Homes Hawaii - Waipio Point
Waipio Point, Castle & Cooke Homes Hawaii's newest planned residential neighborhood, continues the modern-day growth and development of the historic and tradition-rich Waipahu area.
Designed for today's island families but created and built to honor the enduring values and personal pride that are long-standing hallmarks of the Waipahu area, Waipio Point creates an exciting new living experience in one of Oahu's most diverse and time-honored residential areas.
Waipio Point is located at the edge of Waipahu overlooking Pearl Harbor and is adjacent to one of the island's most popular golf courses.
www.castle-cooke.com /Waipio   (346 words)

  
 Waipio Wayside Bed and Breakfast Inn-Honokaa, Honokaa Bed and Breakfasts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Waipio Wayside Bed and Breakfast Inn is a Historic Sugar Plantation home in Honokaa, HI, located minutes from Waipio Valley - Hawaiian Valley of the Kings.
Waipio Wayside Inn has been carefully restored and provides you with all of the modern conveniences while maintaining its old world charm.
Waipio Wayside Bed and Breakfast is located between the three and four mile marker on Highway 240, two miles North of the Honokaa Post Office.
rentalo.com /138690/waipio.html   (830 words)

  
 Waipio Real Estate | Waipio HI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Of those housing units, 4,105 were located in either urbanized areas or urban clusters, and none were located in what is classified as a rural area.
Waipio's vacancy rate, including seasonal lodging, is about 3.3%.
The majority of houses, apartments or condos in Waipio were built after 1984.
www.idcide.com /realestate/hi/waipio.htm   (93 words)

  
 Waipio Valley
We gradually worked our way out from the cliff onto a network of jeep trails which eventually crosses the multiple stream channels and connects to the county "road" on the east side of the valley.
The second hike was to the abandoned, very surrealistic "Tea House" with its formal gardens almost totally reclaimed by the jungle.
It is amazing to us that Hiilawe Falls, which has to be one of the highest waterfalls in the United States (and double the height of Akaka Falls which is dubbed the highest waterfall in Hawaii), is so unknown and inaccessible even though hundreds of tourists visit to within one mile of it every day.
www.naturalhighs.net /waterfalls/falls/waipio_valley.htm   (809 words)

  
 Waipio Valley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Waipio Valley is on the extreme southwest flank of Kohala volcano.
Prior to the late 1980s, the deep valleys on the east flank of Kohala volcano were attributed to stream erosion.
The flat floor of the valley is the result of filling of the stream valley by alluvium and possibly marine sediments during a relative high stand of sea level.
volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/Parks/hawaii/Picture20.html   (115 words)

  
 Waipio Valley History
The word ohana itself is composed of the word oha and the suffix na, and so literally means off-shoots or "that which is composed of off-shoots"; by extension, then, it means "the off-shoots of a family stock" (Handy and Pukui 1972:3).
Changes in Waipio Valley over the last 150 years in the numbers and sizes of families, their ethnic background, educational and business opportunities, and planting choices have somewhat affected the ohana/kalo focus.
What comes through in these primary resources are three levels of social relationship that could be described as ohana in the post-Contact period that of the individual family, of the ethnic group, and of the larger, interrelated and interdependent community of Waipio Valley.
www2.bishopmuseum.org /chpa/waipio/history.htm   (307 words)

  
 Waipio Soccer Complex, City and County of Honolulu
The Waipio Soccer Complex is the first and only soccer facility of its kind in the State of Hawaii with 19 regulation fields, including a 5,000 seat stadium with lights for evening events.
Free to local youth soccer teams, the complex will also be used to raise revenues by attracting soccer teams from the Mainland and other countries, who may wish to practice or sponsor tournaments at the facility.
The Waipio Soccer Stadium is also the home field for the University of Hawaii women's soccer team.
www.co.honolulu.hi.us /parks/programs/soccer/index1.htm   (202 words)

  
 Waipio Valley, Valley of the Kings --Hawaii's Big Island Media Room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The lookout at the entrance into Waipio Valley provides a breathtaking view of small family-owned taro farms that dot the lush valley floor giving Waipio the appearance of a patchwork quilt.
Waipio Valley is known as the Valley of the Kings.
Waipio Wayside BandB Inn is a short five minute drive to the valley look-out.
www.visit.hawaii.org /media/bigisland/waipio_valley.htm   (476 words)

  
 Hawaii Vacation Rental - The Hawaii Oceanview House @ The Top of Waipio Valley
Overlooking pastureland with resident horses, watch the passing squalls breeze across the horizon, the Hawaiian hawks soar across the sky or the migrating whales swim and jump January through March.
Enjoy the expansive ocean views and coastal cliffs of Waipi'o Valley from the spacious covered lanai as well as from within the house itself.
Waipi'o Valley Artworks offers a relaxed cafe` setting serving homemade ice cream, fresh sandwiches, espresso and hot 100% Kona Coffee along with handmade art pieces made exclusively by Hawaii's island artists.
www.hawaiioceanviewhouse.com   (426 words)

  
 Waipio Wayside Bed and Breakfast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Set on the road to famous Waipio Valley on the temperate north-eastern coast, we are centrally located about halfway between Kona and Hilo Airports, and Volcano's National Park, home of the world's only "drive-in" volcano.
This historic 1932 sugar plantation superintendents residence is set in a tropical garden of fruit and nut trees, and brilliant-flowering, sweet-smelling shrubs.
Waipio Wayside is located between the 3 and 4 mile marker on highway 240,
www.volcanogallery.com /lodging/WaipioWayside.htm   (616 words)

  
 Waipio Valley on polihale.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This is an aerial view of Waipio Valley on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Waipio Valley has the look of an ancient rainforest, complete with Jurassic-looking plants like this.
Waipio Valley was used in the final scenes from the film "Waterworld".
polihale.com /display/60310   (922 words)

  
 Tour Honokaa/Waipio Valley
Honokaa/Waipio Valley-Honokaa is a browser’s bonanza with antique emporiums and yummy Portuguese malasadas; nearby Waipio Valley is breathtaking.
WAIPIO VALLEY: Known for its tranquil beauty and isolation, Waipio is six miles long and a mile wide.
Honokaa was the hot spot for sugar plantation camps along the Hamakua Coast; the large Andrade Building is a former dance hall where men paid a dime to “taxi dance” with a local girl.
www.thisweek.com /bigisland/tour/tour-honokaa.html   (253 words)

  
 Hale Kukui Orchard Retreat - Vacation Rental Big Island - Waipio Valley, Hawaii HI 96727   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Waipio Valley with its mile wide fl sand beach is just below us.
Waipio Valley features a mile wide fl sand beach, great hiking, rivers, waterfalls, taro farms and awesome views from nearly everywhere you go.
Waipio Valley features a mile wide fl sand beach, miles of great hiking, river, waterfalls, taro farms and awesome views from nearly everywhere you go.
www.valuevacationrentals.com /vacation-rentals/6143   (451 words)

  
 The Waipio Valley, Big Island of Hawaii
I was camping near the windswept, fl-sand beach in the utopic Waipio Valley, on the northeast side of the Big Island of Hawaii.
I had hitchhiked with my soror from Hilo, up island, to the rim of the Waipio Valley, from where we walked down the precipitous, four-wheel-drive road which leads to the bottom of the vale.
In short, he had pulled off the St. Francis gambit, had walked away from the corruption of mankind, and back to God and the earth, thus bridging the gulf between the spirit and matter, just as his predecessor had done.
www.iconoclastpress.com /WaipioValley.html   (638 words)

  
 VIII. The Shark-man Of Waipio Valley
THIS is a story of Waipio Valley, the most beautiful of all the valleys of the Hawaiian Islands, and one of the most secluded.
Not the least of the history-myths of Waipio Valley is the story of Nanaue, the shark-man, who was one of the cannibals of the ancient time.
When the people were out in the deep sea bathing or fishing, suddenly a fierce shark would appear in their midst, biting and tearing their limbs and dragging them down in the deep water.
www.sacred-texts.com /pac/hlog/hlog13.htm   (1508 words)

  
 Kona Beach House : Hawaii Things to Do : Waipio Daytrip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Waipio, which means, "curved water," is known as the "Valley of the Kings." It was once home to many early Hawaiian rulers and is the place where King Kamehameha the Great received his training.
Ancient burial caves are located in the walls of the cliffs.
Waipio, the largest of the seven valleys on the windward side of the Kohala Mountains, is a mile wide at the coast and almost six miles deep.
www.konabeachhouse.com /thingstodo/waipiodaytrip.htm   (153 words)

  
 Hawaii Vacation Rental - The Cliff House @ The Top of Waipio Valley
The Cliff House offers unobstructed, truly breathtaking views of the ocean, coastal cliffs and valley waterfalls from the spacious cliffside lanai, as well as from within the house itself.
This location is truly an immersion in rural "old Hawaii", while only 15 minutes from the lovely town of Honoka'a, with its shops and restaurants; and less than an hour's drive from the towns of Waimea and Hilo, offering an even greater selection of fine shopping, dining and entertainment opportunities.
Waipi'o Valley Artworks offers a relaxed cafe` setting serving homemade ice cream, fresh sandwiches, espresso and hot 100% Kona Coffee.
www.cliffhousehawaii.com   (396 words)

  
 Waipio valley
A trip to Waipi`o is like going back in time to the "Old Hawaii".
There are taro farms, fish ponds, mountain apples, avocados, bananas, lilikoi (passion fruit), guavas, breadfruit, coconuts and coffee to be seen all along the rough roads of the valley.
At the mouth of the river there is a fl sand beach where many of the locals surf and fish.
www.hawaii-inns.com /hi/ham/waipiovalley.html   (286 words)

  
 Waipio Vacation Rental - Airstream Trailer And Deck | Rates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Awake to the views of Waipio, Valley of the Kings, from your private 24' trailer with a 10' x 24' deck.
Midway between Kona and Hilo at the entrance of Waipio Valley.
Nearby attractions are Waipio Valley, Kona and Hilo.
www.hawaiitravelnetwork.com /~lasko/rates2.php   (263 words)

  
 Waipio Lookout Vacation Rental   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
You will enjoy majestic views of Waipio Valley, home of Hawaiian kings, with a dramatic sweeping 180 degree ocean panorama that includes Maui, and seasonal waterfalls cascading down mountainous cliffs.
We are only 200 yards from the road leading into historic Waipio Valley, or a 30 minute walk down to the valley's fl sand beach.
We used the hale as our home base to see everything from the heavenly Waipio Valley to the stunning green sand beach at South Point.
www.waipiohi.net   (731 words)

  
 Waipio, Hawaii
In Waipio, about 53% of adults are married.
In 2000, Waipio had a median family income of $69,282.
Of the housing in Waipio, approximately 64% is occupied by their owners.
www.citytowninfo.com /places/hawaii/waipio   (203 words)

  
 GORP - Base Camp Hawaii - The Big Island's Waipio and Waimanu Valleys
Boulder-hopping to Waipio Valley's Hi'ilawe Falls and scrambling up rock to reach the high pools of Nanaue Falls on the valley's west flank.
Pitch a three-room tent amongst the pines at Waipio Beach.
Access is down a very, very steep paved road to the valley floor, then across a rutted road to the beach.
gorp.away.com /gorp/location/hi/hi_basecamp2.htm   (465 words)

  
 Waipio Paradise Vacation Rental Tour Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Perched on a knoll-top facing the Pacific Ocean, Waipio Paradise offers comfort, privacy, and luxury amenities unattainable in condo or BandB accommodations.
Enjoy your soak in the private, quiet comfort of the spacious, enclosed lanai/garden room.
Waipio Paradise Vacation Rental is located half way betwen Hilo and Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii.
www.waipio-paradise.com /tour.htm   (268 words)

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