Hōkūkano-ʻUalapuʻe Complex

The Hōkūkano-ʻUalapuʻe Complex at ʻUalapuʻe on Molokaʻi is a pre-contact Native Hawaiian archaeological landscape that unites six heiaus and two walled fishponds, making it one of Hawaii’s most important surviving groups of Hawaiian sites. Its most prominent feature, ʻIliʻiliʻōpae Heiau, is the largest heiau on Molokaʻi and the second largest in Hawaii, rising in four tiers to a substantial stone platform. Hawaiian tradition holds that menehune built it in a single night. The complex also includes Keawanui Pond and ʻUalapuʻe Pond, notable examples of loko kuapā on Molokaʻi’s south coast. Together these sites preserve a major record of Native Hawaiian religious architecture and aquaculture.

Ualapue, Hawaii · United States