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County: Kauai
Site_Name: Kipapa Heiau
Island: Kauai
Traditional_District: Others
District: Hanalei
Ahupuaa: W. Waiakalua, Hanalei
Site_Function: Heiau A-Walled enclosure
Complex: No
Tax_Map_Key: 5-1-05:
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BM_site_number: 50-Ka-D13-001
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Surveyor: Bennett
Survey_Type: Recon. survey
Survey_Date: 00JAN1929
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SiteType: Kipapa Heiau, on the end of the first bluff E of Kilauea River in Kahili section. Described by Thrum as "A large heiau of some 300 by over 100 feet in size, paved, walls 5 feet high..." Since that time the stones have been removed.
Bibliography: W.C.Bennett, Arch. of Kauai, 1931, Site 132, p. 133