Waimea
Waimea is a landlocked community in Hawaiʻi County, Hawaii, United States. Waimea is the center for ranching activities and paniolo culture. The name Waimea means reddish water.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 9,210 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States
- Also known as: “Kamuela”, “Waimea - Bis Island”, “Waimea, Hawaiʻi County, Hawaii”, “Waimea, Hawaii County, Hawaii”, and “Waimea, HI”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Isaacs Art Center and Waimea-Kohala Airport.
Isaacs Art Center
Museum
Photo: HawaiiCalls, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Isaacs Art Center is an art museum and retail gallery in Waimea on the Island of Hawaii. It is operated by and for the benefit of the Hawaii Preparatory Academy; all proceeds benefit the school's scholarship fund.
Waimea-Kohala Airport
Aerodrome
Waimea-Kohala Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile southwest of Waimea, an unincorporated town in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States.
Parker School
School
Parker School is an independent, co-educational day school for students in grades K-12 located in Waimea, Hawaii County, Hawaii. The school offers a complete K-12 college-preparatory program in separate facilities for lower, middle and upper school students.
Waimea
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Hawaii County, Big Island, Hawaii, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
20.0205° or 20° 1′ 14″ northLongitude
-155.6639° or 155° 39′ 50″ westPopulation
9,210Elevation
2,667 feet (813 metres)IATA airport code
MUEOpen location code
73G628CP+5COpenStreetMap ID
node 150920117OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Waimea” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Waimea”
- Catalan: “Waimea”
- Cebuano: “Waimea”
- Chechen: “Ваймеа (Гавай гуо, Гавай)”
- Chechen: “Ваймеа”
- Chinese: “Waimea”
- Chinese: “威美亞 (夏威夷縣)”
- Chinese: “怀梅阿”
- Chinese: “懷梅阿”
- Dagbani: “Waimea”
- Dutch: “Waimea”
- French: “Waimea”
- German: “Kamuela (USPS)”
- German: “Waimea”
- Irish: “Waimea”
- Italian: “Waimea”
- Japanese: “ワイメア”
- Ladin: “Waimea”
- Mazanderani: “وایمیا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Waimea”
- Persian: “وایمی هاواییکانتی، هاوایی”
- Persian: “وایمیا”
- Polish: “Waimea”
- Portuguese: “Waimea”
- Russian: “Ваимеа”
- Serbian: “Ваимеа”
- Serbian: “Вајмеа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waimea, Hawaii”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waimea”
- Silesian: “Waimea”
- Slovenian: “Waimea”
- Spanish: “Waimea (condado de Hawái, Hawái)”
- Spanish: “Waimea (Hawái)”
- Spanish: “Waimea”
- Swedish: “Waimea”
- Talysh: “Vaimea”
- Tatar: “Ваймеа (Гавай округы, Гавай)”
- Tatar: “Ваймеа”
- Ukrainian: “Ваймеа”
- Welsh: “Waimea”
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