Complexe des marais de Kawainui et Hamakua

Le complexe des marais de Kawainui et Hamakua (en anglais : Kawainui and Hamakua Marsh Complex) est une zone humide américaine dans le comté d'Honolulu, à Hawaï. Il constitue un site Ramsar depuis le 2 février 2005.

Location

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Kailua, Hawaii

Kailua is a census-designated place in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States. It lies in the Koʻolaupoko District of the island of Oʻahu on the windward coast at Kailua Bay. It is in the judicial district and the ahupua'a named Ko'olaupoko. It is 12 miles northeast of Honolulu – over Nu‘uanu Pali. In the Hawaiian language Kailua means "two seas" or "two currents", a contraction of the words kai and ʻelua; it is so named because of the two former fishponds in the district or the two currents that run through Kailua Bay. Kailua is primarily a residential community, with a centralized commercial district along Kailua Road. The population was 50,000 in 1992. In the 2017 census, the population had dropped to 38,000. The population was 40,514 at the 2020 census. Places of note in Kailua include Kailua Beach Park, Kaʻōhao or Lanikai Beach, Kawainui Marsh, Maunawili Falls, and Marine Corps Base Hawaii. It was home to Barack Obama’s winter White House.

Beach Restaurant

Kawainui Marsh

Kawainui Fishpond or Kawainui Marsh is a wetland and resurfacing fishpond in Kailua, Hawaiʻi. It is the largest remaining wetland and the largest ancient freshwater fishpond in Hawaiʻi, and a designated Ramsar Convention wetland.

Lake

1.3 km

Kalaheo High School

Kalāheo High School is a public high school in Kailua CDP, City and County of Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, United States, on the island of Oʻahu. The school building opened as Kalāheo Intermediate School in 1966, but was repurposed as a high school in 1973. The school mascot is the Mustang, and the school colors are blue and orange. Some graduating classes have had all blue or all orange graduation gowns and caps. The campus has the glazed ceramic tile sculpture Spirit of the Koʻolaus by Claude Horan.

Restaurant School

Boettcher Estate

Boettcher Estate, also known as Kalama Beach Park, is a former beachfront estate in Kailua, Honolulu County, Hawaii, with a house designed by Vladimir Ossipoff and landscape designed by Richard Tongg.

Beach Park

Ulupō Heiau State Historic Site

Ulupō Heiau on the eastern edge of Kawai Nui Marsh in Kailua, Hawaiʻi, is an ancient site associated in legend with the menehune, but later with high chiefs of Oʻahu, such as Kakuhihewa in the 15th century and Kualiʻi in the late 17th century. It may have reached the peak of its importance in 1750, before being abandoned after Oʻahu was conquered in the 1780s. The site became a territorial park in 1954, was partially restored in the early 1960s, marked with a bronze plaque by the State Commission on Historical Sites in 1962, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The massive stone platform of the heiau measures 140 by 180 feet, with outer walls up to 30 feet high, its size and scale indicating both its cultural importance and the chiefly power of its patrons. Many of the stones may have been transported from as far as Kualoa, more than 10 miles away. Although it probably began as an agricultural heiau with springs feeding crops of taro, banana, sweet potato, and sugarcane along the fringes of the 400-acre Kawai Nui pond full of mullet and other fish. However, the great warrior chief Kualiʻi may have converted it to a heiau luakini, with an altar, an oracle tower, thatched hale, and wooden images. Kailua, with its ample supplies of pond fish, irrigated fields, and canoe landings, was a center of political power for Koʻolaupoko, which often vied with Waialua for control of Oʻahu. After defeating the forces of Oʻahu high chief Kahahana in the 1780s, Maui chief Kahekili lived in Kailua, as did Kamehameha I after conquering Oʻahu in 1795. In later years, Queen Kalama, consort of Kamehameha III, inherited most of the land in Kailua after the death of her husband in 1854, most of it acquired in 1917 by Harold Kainalu Long Castle for his Kaneohe Ranch. The acquisition of land for Kaneohe Ranch brought about changes to the area due to the grazing and ranching of livestock.

Park