(Kālepa)
| Feature: | Ahupuaa, point, stream |
| Comments: | Identified as the easternmost ahupuaa in Kaupo on the circa-1880s Hawaiian Government Survey map of Kaupo. Historian Moses Manu corroborated this in his history of the chief Kihapiilani published in the Nupepa Kuokoa on March 1, 1884. Diacretical spelling comes from the legend of Heleipawa in historian Samuel Kamakau's "Tales and Traditions of the People of Old", translated by Mary Kawena Pukui. Diacretical spelling is Pukui's, as Kamakau's original article in the newspaper Ke Au Okoa (Oct. 21, 1869) does not contain diacretical marks. Mentioned in an obituary in Ka Nupepa Kuokoa on July 14, 1927: "Aloha na pali o Kailua ahiki i Keanae a hoea i Naopuu, Kaupo, kahi a kuu bebe i hele ai; auhea oukou e Kanuha ma, ua pau ko Kaanoipua hehi-ku ana i ko oukou home; aloha na pali o Kalepa kahi o Marjorie i noke ai i ka uwe i ke kakani o ke kapuai wawae lio iluna o ka pohaku. Aloha no ia mau pali!" (Farewell, cliffs from Kailua to Keanae all the way to Naopuu, Kaupo, where my baby went. How are you, the Kanuhas, your sweetheart no longer stamps through your home. Farewell, cliffs of Kalepa, the place where Marjorie always cried from the noise of the horse’s feet on the rocks. Farewell to those cliffs!) |
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| Further reading: | Kalepa ahupuaa (Ulukau.org) Kalepa Point (Ulukau.org) Kalepa stream (Ulukau.org) |