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The Kahaluu Taro Loi Historic District, also known as the Āhuimanu Taro Complex, in Kahaluu on the windward side of Oʻahu, is the most complex and largest intact system of terraces for growing wetland taro on Oʻahu. It contains at least 18 ''loi'' (pondfield) terraces once watered by Āhuimanu Stream and associated ''auwai'' (irrigation ditches) over about that start from headwaters just below the cliffs of the Koolau Range. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Park Service: National Register of Historic Places: Inventory – Nomination Form #73000669 )〕 after windward residents raised concerns about development plans in the area.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kahaluu Pond Peril (digitized newspaper clippings) )〕 The Kahaluu Fish Pond was also added to the National Register at that time. The terraces are roughly rectangular in shape and average 5 by 10 meters in size, with front facings of stacked stone ranging up to 2 meters or more in height. The pondfields have all been silted in and are often obscured by heavy overgrowth of hau, mango, and guava trees, but they have withstood many generations of heavy rainfall on steeply sloping hillsides, in silent testimony to ancient Hawaiian expertise in irrigation and flood control.〔 In 1973, a University of Hawaii archaeology program field school excavated soil profiles from the terraces, and the site was cleared during the 1980s, but the State of Hawaii Historic Preservation Division is now seeking community organizations willing to clear the site and make it operational again.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=State Historic Preservation Division: Historic Preserves and Site Curatorship )〕 The site is owned by Temple Valley Corp.,〔 which has continued to develop new houses around it. At the time of the NRHP nomination, the Historic District was said to lie 900 meters west of the west end of Hui Kelu Street and to be accessible via an abandoned jeep road.〔 Even as late as July 1996, a hiker described returning via the jeep road. But Hui Kelu Street has since been extended across Āhuimanu Stream, where the hiking trail begins, and the lower portion of the jeep road is now Heno Place.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Google maps: Hui Kelu Street )〕 ==Gallery== Image:Oahu-Kahaluukalo-AhuimanuStream-fence.JPG|Āhuimanu Stream fence and tunnel at Hui Kelu St. Image:Oahu-Kahaluukalo-Ahuimanuwaterfall-dry.JPG|Waterfall site at headwaters Image:Oahu-Kahaluukalo-Ahuimanuspring+pipe.JPG|Spring and old water pipe at headwaters Image:Oahu-Kahaluukalo-auwai.JPG|Old ''auwai'' above the stream Image:Oahu-Kahaluukalo-trailhead1.JPG|Overgrown trailhead at Āhuimanu Stream and Hui Kelu St. Image:Oahu-Kahaluukalo-AhuimanuStream-crossing.JPG|Āhuimanu Stream crossing Image:Oahu-Kahaluukalo-terracewall-low.JPG|Low terrace wall Image:Oahu-Kahaluukalo-terrace-wall-saplings.JPG|Low terrace wall surrounded by saplings 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kahaluu Taro Lo'i」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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