Puʻu Kukui

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Puʻu Kukui is a mountain peak in Hawaiʻi, the highest of the West Maui Mountains (Mauna Kahalawai). The 5,788-foot (1,764 m) summit rises above the Puʻu Kukui Watershed Management Area, an 8,661-acre (35.05 km2) private nature preserve maintained by the Maui Land & Pineapple Company. The peak was formed by a volcano whose caldera eroded into what is now the Iao Valley.

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Pu'u Kukui
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Pu'u Kukui as seen from North Shore Maui
Highest point
Elevation5,788 ft (1,764 m)[1]
Prominence5,668 ft (1,728 m)[1]
Listing
Coordinates20°53′26″N 156°35′11″W[1]
Geography
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Pu'u Kukui
Pu'u Kukui
Hawaii
LocationMaui, Hawaiʻi, U.S.
Parent rangeHawaiian Islands
Topo mapUSGS Lahaina
Geology
Rock age<1.3 Mega-annum
Mountain typeEroded shield volcano
Volcanic arc/beltHawaiian–Emperor seamount chain
Climbing
Easiest routeHike
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Puʻu Kukui receives an average of 386.5 inches (9,820 mm) of rain a year,[2] making it one of the wettest spots on Earth[3] and third wettest in the state after Big Bog on Maui and Mount Waiʻaleʻale on Kauai,[4] Rainwater unable to drain away flows into a bog. The soil is dense, deep, and acidic.[5]

Puʻu Kukui is home to many endemic plants, insects, and birds, including the greensword (Argyroxiphium grayanum), a distinctive bog variety of ʻōhiʻa lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha var. pseudorugosa)[6] and many lobelioid species. Due to the mountain peak's extreme climate and acidic peat soil, many species, such as the ʻōhiʻa, are represented as dwarfs. Access to the area is restricted to researchers and conservationists.

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