Waimea is a common place name in Hawaii and New Zealand. In
Hawaiian, it means reddish water; in
Māori
Māori or Maori can refer to:
Relating to the Māori people
* Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group
* Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand
* Māori culture
* Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the C ...
it means forgotten or hidden stream. It may refer to:
Places
Hawaii, United States
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Waimea, Hawaii County, Hawaii
Waimea is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 7,028 at the 2000 census and 9,212 at the 2010 census. Since each U.S. state cannot have more than one post office of the same name, and t ...
, (Big Island, post office "Kamuela")
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Waimea-Kohala Airport, Hawaii County
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Waimea, Kauai County, Hawaii
Waimea (literally, "red water" in Hawaiian) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kauai County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 2,057 at the 2020 census. The first Europeans to reach Hawaii landed in Waimea in 1778 (giving rise to Kau ...
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Waimea Bay, Oahu
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Waimea Canyon State Park
Waimea Canyon, also known as the Grand Canyon of the Pacific, is a large canyon, approximately ten miles (16 km) long and up to 3,000 feet (900 m) deep, located on the western side of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands of the United States. Wai ...
, Kauai
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Waimea Ditch, Kauai
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Waimea River (Kauai)
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Waimea River (Oahu)
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Waimea Valley, Oahu
New Zealand
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Waimea Inlet, Tasman Bay
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Waimea Plain (Southland)
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Waimea Plains (Tasman)
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Waimea (New Zealand electorate)
Waimea was a parliamentary electorate in the Nelson Province of New Zealand, from 1853 to 1887. Initially represented by two members, it was a single-member electorate from 1861.
Geographic coverage
Waimea was located in the northern part of the ...
, historic electorate
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Waimea-Picton, historic electorate
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Waimea-Sounds (New Zealand electorate), historic electorate
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Waimea River (Southland)
The Waimea River is a tributary of the Mataura River in Southland, New Zealand. The Waimea Plains around this river form part of the Southland Plains
The Southland Plains is a general name given to several areas of low-lying land in the South I ...
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Waimea River (Tasman)
Schools
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Waimea College, Richmond, Tasman, New Zealand
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Waimea High School, Kauai, Hawaii
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Waimea Intermediate, Richmond, Tasman, New Zealand
Flora and fauna
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Perrottetia sandwicensis'' (common name Waimea or Olomea), a shrub in the genus
Perrottetia
''Perrottetia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Dipentodontaceae described as a family in 1824. Species occur in China, Southeast Asia, Papuasia, Hawaii, Australia, and Latin America. It is the largest genus of the recently describ ...
native to Hawaii
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Waimea pipturus
''Pipturus albidus'', known as ''māmaki'' (sometimes ''waimea'', for its resemblance to olomea) in Hawaiian and known as Waimea pipturus in English, is a species of flowering plant in the nettle family, Urticaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii. ...
'', a Hawaiian flowering nettle
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Waimea phyllostegia
''Phyllostegia knudsenii'' is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name Waimea phyllostegia and Knudsen's phyllostegia. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known only from the island of Kauai.[ ...]
'', a Hawaiian species of mint
Other
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Archdeacon of Waimea
The Diocese of Nelson is one of the 13 dioceses and hui amorangi of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The Diocese covers the northern part of the South Island of New Zealand, which is mostly the area north of a line dr ...
, an ecclesiastical post in New Zealand
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Waimea House, a historic residence in Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia
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Waimea Plains Railway
The Waimea Plains Railway was a secondary railway line (not a branch line) that linked the towns of Lumsden and Gore in northern Southland, New Zealand. It skirted the Hokonui Hills, and operated as a through route between 31 July 1880 and 1 A ...
, Southland, New Zealand
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