Kawai Nui Marsh

Kawai Nui Marsh (or Kawanui) is, at over 800 ac, the largest wetlands in the Hawaiian Islands. The marsh is located near Kailua on the windward side of O'ahu and is owned by the State of Hawaii and the City & County of Honolulu. This marsh is a Ramsar Convention nomination site. Image File history File linksMetadata KAWAINUIMARSH.jpg Summary Picture take 2005. ... Image File history File linksMetadata KAWAINUIMARSH.jpg Summary Picture take 2005. ... A subtropical wetland in Florida, USA, with an endangered American Crocodile. ... Map of the Hawaiian Islands, a chain of islands that stretches 2,400 km in a northwesterly direction from the southern tip of the Island of Hawai‘i. ... Freshwater marsh in Florida In geography, a marsh is a type of wetland, featuring grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, and other herbaceous plants (possibly with low-growing woody plants) in a context of shallow water. ... View across Kailua Beach to the offshore islet known as Moku nui, one of Nā Mokulua off Lanikai Kailua is a census-designated place located in the City & County of Honolulu, in the Koolaupoko District of Oahu on the windward coast at Kailua Bay. ... Oahu (usually Oahu outside Hawaiian and Hawaiian English), the Gathering Place, is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous island in the State of Hawaii. ... State nickname: The Aloha State Other U.S. States Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Monarch Akahi Nui Governor Linda Lingle (R) Senators Daniel Inouye (D) Daniel Akaka (D) Official language(s) Hawaiian and English Area 28,337 km² (43rd)  - Land 16,649 km²  - Water 11,672 km² (41. ... Location in the state of Hawaii Formed Seat Honolulu Area  - Total  - Water 5,509 km² (2,127 mi²) 3,955 km² (1,527 mi²) 71. ... The Ramsar Convention is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands, i. ...

Ka wai nui means "the big water" in Hawaiian and no doubt reflects the fact that this feature was a large, possibly marine or estuarine, body of water at the time when the area was first settled by Polynesians. Today, nearly all of the marsh is covered by vegetation, and this is either floating on water, growing on a mat of peat that is floating on water, or in the upper-most parts of the marsh a wet meadow. The latter area is utilized by cattle for grazing when not flooded by high water level. Most of the marsh lies behind a levee constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for flood control purposes. The marsh is the lowland recipient of sometimes very heavy rainfall in Maunawili Valley. The marsh outlet is through a man-made channel called Oneawa Channel. Hawaiian is the ancestral language of the indigenous people of the Hawaiian Islands, the Hawaiians, a Polynesian people. ... Polynesia is generally defined as the islands within the triangle Polynesia (from Greek, poly = many and nesos = island) is a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. ... United States Army Corps of Engineers logo The United States Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE, is made up of some 34,600 military men and women. ... View mauka from the Maunawili Demonstration Trail Maunawili is a census-designated place and residential area located in the City & County of Honolulu, Koolaupoko District, Island of Oahu. ...

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