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Akaka Falls State Park is a state park on Hawaii Island, in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The park is about north from Hilo, west of Honomū off the Hawaii Belt Road (route 19) at the end of Hawaii Route 220, . It includes Akaka Falls, a tall waterfall. ''Akaka'' in the Hawaiian language means "A rent, split, chink, separation; to crack, split, scale".〔Pukui, Mary Kawena, Samuel H. Elbert, 1986. Hawaiian Dictionary. The University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. 572 pp. (ISBN 0-8248-0703-0)〕 The accessible portion of the park lies high on the right shoulder of the deep gorge into which the waterfall plunges, and the falls can be viewed from several points along a loop trail through the park. Also visible from this trail is Kahūnā Falls. Local folklore describes a stone here called ''Pōhaku a Pele'' that, when struck by a branch of ''lehua āpane'', will call the sky to darken and rain to fall.〔Pukui, Mary Kawena, Samuel H. Elbert, and Esther T. Mookini. 1974. Place Names of Hawaii. The University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. 289 pp. (ISBN 0-8248-0524-0)〕 ''Lehua āpane'' or ''ōhia āpane'' is an ''ōhia'' tree (''Metrosideros polymorpha'') with dark red blossoms. Akaka Falls is located on Kolekole Stream. A large stone in the stream about upstream of the falls is called ''Pōhaku o Kāloa''.〔 ==Wildlife== The Oopu alamoo is an endemic Hawaiian species of goby fish that spawns in stream above the waterfall, but matures in the sea. These fish have a suction disk on their bellies that allows them to cling to the wet rocks behind and adjacent to the waterfall. Using this disk, they climb back up to the stream when it is time to spawn 〔http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57619422-1/where-badass-fish-climb-rock-cliffs..-with-their-mouths/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Akaka Falls State Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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