Big Island · South Kohala

Kuʻemanu Heiau

Kuʻemanu

Kuʻemanu Heiau
Photo: Dr. Donald B. MacGowan · Public domain
Kapu

This place asks to be respected from a distance. Please do not enter.

Kuʻemanu Heiau is a stone-walled pre-contact Hawaiian temple immediately adjacent to Kahaluʻu Beach Park on Aliʻi Drive in Kona…

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How to visit

Kuʻemanu is an active sacred site — kapu. Do not enter the structure. Do not climb on the walls. Do not move stones, do not leave offerings of any kind, do not take rocks. Observe from outside the perimeter. The heiau is visible from Aliʻi Drive at the south end of Kahaluʻu Beach Park; the same parking serves both. Some practitioners still use this site; if you encounter ceremony in progress, give it space and quiet.

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