Maalaea
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census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States
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Vinony's link graph records 87 inbound references to Maalaea, and connects out to race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Waihee-Waiehu and Hawaii.
The entry is geolocated on the map in city.
It sits within the topics Census-designated places in Maui County, Hawaii, Populated coastal places in Hawaii and Populated places on Maui.
Vinony links it to 28 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Hawaii
- County
- Maui
- Total
- 7.49 sq mi (19.39 km )
- Land
- 5.15 sq mi (13.35 km )
- Water
- 2.33 sq mi (6.04 km )
- Elevation
- 98 ft (30 m)
- Density
- 60.1/sq mi (23.22/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-10 ( Hawaii-Aleutian )
- Fips code
- 15-46400
- Gnis feature id
- 0361945
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- census-designated place in the United States
- Official name
- Maalaea
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Maui County
- Population
- 310
- Area
- 20.122593
- Elevation
- 30
- Households
- 178
- Dialing code
- 808
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- Commons category
- Maalaea, Hawaii
- located in/on physical feature
- Maui
- water as percent of area
- 29.9949
- per capita income
- 65081
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Encyclopedic overview
Māʻalaea is a census-designated place (CDP) in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 310 at the 2020 census. Māʻalaea sits on the southern coast of the isthmus separating West Maui from the island’s Central Valley. Like other ahupua‘a (Hawaiian land divisions), it widens as it descends from mountain slopes into the sea, occupying 5.4 square miles of land and 2.3 miles of ocean. For more than a millennium, Māʻalaea has been a crossroads, a landing place for Hawaiian kings and armies, and in time, whalers and sailing ships. Highways follow the ancient trails that once branched north to Wailuku (today Maui County’s governmental seat), west to Lahaina, and south to what are now the towns of Kīhei and Wailea. The name Māʻalaea comes from the Hawaiian word ‘alae, the iron oxide from volcanic eruptions that gives the region its iron-rich red earth.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maalaea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.