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Kakio

(Kakiʻo)

Feature:Ahupuaa
Alternate spelling:Kokio
Comments:Identified as an ahupuaa on the circa-1880s Hawaiian Government Survey map of Kaupo.

Archaeologist Winslow Walker wrote in his field notes from a survey of Kaupo in 1929 that Hale o Kane heiau and Lonoaea heiau are in Kakio, although both heiau appear to be in Kepio ahupuaa based on the Hawaiian Government Survey map.

Diacretical spelling (Kakiʻo) comes from the book "Sites of Maui".

Spelled "Kokio" in an article in Pacific Commercial Advertiser on November 16, 1903
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Further reading:Kakio ahupuaa (Ulukau.org)

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