Enchanted Lake

Enchanted Lake is a suburb in Honolulu County, Hawaii and has about 5,090 residents. Enchanted Lake is situated nearby to the hamlet Pōhākupu, as well as near the suburb Lanikai Beach.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ka‘elepulu Pond and Lanikai Beach.

Ka‘elepulu Pond

Pond

Kaʻelepulu Pond, also known as Enchanted Lake, is an estuary in Kailua, Hawaii. The Hawaiian name Kaʻelepulu literally means "moist blackness". Historically a 200-to-400-acre Hawaiian fish pond, and later a fishery made up of 190 acres of water and 90 acres of marsh, Kaʻelepulu was partially filled in and built on beginning in 1959.

Lanikai Beach

Beach

Photo: Hakilon, CC BY 3.0.

Lanikai Beach or Kaʻōhao Beach is located in Kaʻōhao, a community in the town of Kailua and on the windward coast of Oʻahu, Hawaii. Although there is a widespread belief that the name Lanikai means "heavenly sea", that is a misconception and a grammatical error, since in the Hawaiian language, the qualifier comes after the noun. Lanikai Beach is situated 2½ km northeast of Enchanted Lake.

Kailua High School

School

Kailua High School is a four-year public high school located in the Kailua CDP, City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States on the island of O‘ahu.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kailua and Waimanalo.

Kailua

Photo: EthanOfChapman, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Kailua is a census-designated place in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States. It lies in the Koʻolaupoko District of the island of Oʻahu on the windward coast at Kailua Bay.

Waimanalo

Town

Photo: Tijuana Brass, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Waimānalo is a census-designated place in the District of Koʻolaupoko, in the City & County of Honolulu, on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaii, United States. Waimanalo is situated 4 km southeast of Enchanted Lake.

Waimānalo Beach

Village

Photo: Pixel23, CC BY-SA 1.0.

Waimānalo Beach is a census-designated place located in the City & County of Honolulu, in the District of Koʻolaupoko, on the island of Oʻahu in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi. Waimānalo Beach is situated 6 km southeast of Enchanted Lake.

Enchanted Lake

Type: Suburb with 5,090 residents
Category: locality
Location: Honolulu County, Hawaii, Polynesia, Oceania
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Latitude

21.38005° or 21° 22′ 48″ north

Longitude

-157.73695° or 157° 44′ 13″ west

Population

5,090

Elevation

7 metres (23 feet)

Open location code

73H497J7+26

OpenStreetMap ID

node 150919308

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

GeoNames ID

13100445

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Hawaiian to Russian—“Enchanted Lake” goes by many names.

Hawaiian: “Ka‘elepulu”
Russian: “Енчантед Лейк”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Enchanted Lake Community Park and Water Gardens Keolu 4.

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