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Kapaʻa

“the solid, the closing”

kah-PAH-ah

The largest town on Kauaʻi's east side.

The solid

Kapaʻa reads as ka paʻa — the solid, the firm, the closed. Paʻa is one of the most-used words in Hawaiian and covers anything held fast.

The east side of Kauaʻi is called the Coconut Coast, and Kapaʻa is its centre — a plantation town that outlived the plantations.

Sources the Pukui and Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary, Place Names of Hawaii, Nānā i ke Kumu, wehewehe.org, Wiktionary's Hawaiian given names and U.S. Social Security baby-name records. How this site is compiled · Send a correction