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Kapalaoa

Feature:Undefined place
Alternate spelling:Kapala‘ao
Comments:Area at the base of the southern rim of Haleakala near the Puu Maile cinder cone.

According to Ted Rodrigues, a longtime Haleakala park ranger, the Kapalaoa area also went by Kapala‘ao.

Archaeologist Kenneth Emory wrote about the area in his report of a 1920 survey of the crater: "At the foot of Puu Maile and opposite the spring, Kapalaoa, I counted over 50 stone shelters in clusters of 3 to 10, and found pebbles lying on the sand about Kahuinaokeone, but none among the Kapalaoa shelters."

In the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps built a cabin supported with water from the spring.
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