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| Akaka Falls | | Akaka Falls on Kolekole Stream | | Location: | Honomu, Hawaii
United States | | Type: | Plunge | | Total Height: | 422 feet (129 m) | | Longest Single Drop: | 422 feet (129 m) | | Number of Drops: | 1 | | World Height Ranking: | 612 | Akaka Falls State Park is a state park on Hawaii Island, in the US state of Hawaii. The park is about north from Hilo, west of Honom off the Hawaii Belt Road (route 19) at the end of Hawaii Route 220, . It includes Akaka Falls, a tall waterfall. Akaka in the Hawaiian language means "A rent, split, chink, separation; to crack, split, scale".[1] The accessible portion of the park lies high on the right shoulder of the deep gorge into which the waterfall plunges, and the falls can be viewed from several points along a loop trail through the park. Also visible from this trail is Kah n Falls. Trail in park, 1959 Local folklore describes a stone here called P haku a Pele that, when struck by a branch of lehua pane, will call the sky to darken and rain to fall.[2] Lehua pane or hia pane is an hia tree (Metrosideros polymorpha) with dark red blossoms. Akaka Falls is located on Kolekole Stream. A large stone in the stream about upstream of the falls is called P haku o K loa.[2] See also References External links es:Parque Estatal de las Cataratas Akaka fa: ru: ( ) uk:
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