Loaloa Heiau

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Loaloa Heiau
(U.S. National Historic Landmark)

Nearest city:	Kaupo, Hawaii
Coordinates:	20°38′41″N 156°7′26″W / 20.64472, -156.12389Coordinates: 20°38′41″N 156°7′26″W / 20.64472, -156.12389
Built/Founded:	1730
Added to NRHP:	October 15, 1966^[1]
NRHP Reference#:	66000301
Governing body:	Private

Loaloa Heiau is located in Kaupo on Maui. This is one of the few remaining intact examples of a large luakini heiau (state level temple where human sacrifice was performed). Once the center of an important cultural complex around Kaupo, oral tradition attributes the construction of the temple at about 1730 AD to Kekaulike, King of Maui, who lived at Kaupo and died in 1736.

Its site number is HASS-50-MA-A28-1.

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^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).

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