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Wainaku

Wainaku is a census-designated place in Hawaiʻi County, , United States. The population was 1,147 at the 2020 census.
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  • Type: Village with 1,220 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in Hawaiʻi County, Hawaiʻi, United States
  • Also known as: “Wainaku Landing”, “Wainaku Mill”, “Wainaku, Hawaii”, and “Wainaku, HI”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pacific Tsunami Museum and East Hawaiʻi Cultural Center.

Museum
Photo: Hermann Luyken, CC0.
The is a museum in dedicated to the history of the April 1, 1946 Pacific tsunami and the May 23, 1960 Chilean tsunami which devastated much of the east coast of the Big Island, especially Hilo.

Arts center
Photo: W Nowicki, CC BY 3.0.
The is an art gallery, community theater, and in downtown , . EHCC features regular art exhibitions with free or suggested donation entry to the general public.

Theater building
Photo: brewbooks, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a historic movie theater in downtown . Built in 1925, the Beaux-Arts–style building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 11, 1993.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Paukaa and Waiākea.

Suburb
Paukaʻa is a census-designated place in Hawaii County, , United States. The population was 425 at the 2010 census, down from 495 at the 2000 census. The ZIP code is 96720.

Suburb
is an ancient subdivision in the Hilo District of the Big Island of Hawaiʻi and an early settlement on . is situated 2½ miles southeast of Wainaku.

Photo: Footwarrior, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town on the of . The county seat and largest city in Hawaii County, is the one of the best starting points to explore the eastern half of the island, including .

Wainaku

Latitude
19.74317° or 19° 44′ 35″ north
Longitude
-155.0921° or 155° 5′ 32″ west
Population
1,220
Elevation
256 feet (78 metres)
Open location code
73F6PWV5+75
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150919541
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5854599
Wiki­data ID
Q2433743
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Wainaku” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Wainaku”
  • Cebuano: “Wainaku”
  • Chechen: “Вайнаку (Гавай)”
  • Chechen: “Вайнаку”
  • Chinese: “Wainaku”
  • Chinese: “怀纳库”
  • Chinese: “懷納庫”
  • Chinese: “韋納庫”
  • Dutch: “Wainaku”
  • French: “Wainaku”
  • Gilaki: “ویناکو (هاوايي)”
  • Gilaki: “ویناکو”
  • Irish: “Wainaku”
  • Italian: “Wainaku”
  • Ladin: “Wainaku”
  • Mazanderani: “وایناکو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wainaku”
  • Newari: “वैनाकु (हवाई)”
  • Newari: “वैनाकु, हवाई”
  • Newari: “वैनाकु”
  • Polish: “Wainaku”
  • Portuguese: “Wainaku”
  • Russian: “Ваинаку”
  • Serbian: “Вајнаку”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wainaku, Hawaii”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wainaku”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وایناکو، هاوایی”
  • Spanish: “Wainaku (Hawái)”
  • Spanish: “Wainaku”
  • Talysh: “Vainaku”
  • Tatar: “Вайнаку (Гавай)”
  • Tatar: “Вайнаку”
  • Ukrainian: “Вайнаку”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wainaku”. Photo: Paolo Salmaso, CC BY 2.0.