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Menehune Ditch

irrigation system, Hawaii, United States

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landmark of Waimea

In Waimea
A famous landmark is Menehune Ditch, a large irrigation system built of smoothed lava stone; according to legend, the structure, constructed before Polynesian settlement, was built in one night by menehunes (“little people”). Pop. (2000) 1,787; (2010) 1,855.
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