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In an old legend, Pikoi-a-ka-`alala was said to have speared a huge octopus at sea and flung it ashore here. Hence the name, Water-of-the-octopus.
The main stream bearing this name has its headwaters in a waterfall against the mountain wall, and is joined by two others, Hamama and Kalia. Carefully terraced but abandoned taro lo`i follow the stream and its tributaries almost to their several sources. It is said that the ahupua`a took its name from a kapu lo`i belonging to the ali`i of the place situated mauka of the muliwai (lagoon) called Pa`ele, into which the main stream empties. |