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Kāneʻāki Heiau, built around the 15th century as an agricultural temple to Lono, is the most thoroughly restored ancient heiau in Hawaiʻi — excavated by the Bishop Museum in 1970 and open to visitors.
Waiʻanae is the heart of the Westside — the leeward coast of Oʻahu, home to one of the highest concentrations of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders anywhere.
Why People Visit Waiʻanae Hawaiʻi
Waiʻanae offers the original home of big-wave surfing at Mākaha Beach, the world's first international surfing competition (1953-1954) and the long-running Buffalo's Big Board Surfing Classic, the protected swimming waters of Pōkaʻī Bay with its Pōkaʻī coconut-grove legend and Kūʻīlioloa Heiau, the 15th-century Kāneʻāki Heiau in Mākaha Valley, the 4,025-foot summit of Mount Kaʻala as the highest peak on Oʻahu, the westernmost tip of Oʻahu at Kaʻena Point, and the long Native Hawaiian heritage of the Waiʻanae moku that has carried this coast for centuries. It is the leeward Westside of Oʻahu — a residential community whose culture is alive, and where the world first watched surfers ride big waves on television. On the Westside since time before contact.
