What is "waipio"

Usage examples of "waipio".

The word traveled swiftly up and down the coast, and by nightfall the downtown streets were crowded with people who had come from as far away as South Point and the Waipio Valley to see for themselves if the rumor was really true -- that Lono had, in fact, returned in the form of a huge drunken maniac who dragged fish out of the sea with his bare hands and then beat them to death on the dock with a short-handled Samoan war club.

She lived alone in a hut in a retired part of the valley of Waipio, and it is said that a large pueo, or owl, which was sacred and sometimes worshipped, came nightly and perched upon the roof of her lonely habitation.