:Palolo, Hawaii

{{short description|Neighborhood in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States}}

{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2015}}

{{Infobox settlement

|official_name = Pālolo

|settlement_type = Neighborhood

|image_skyline = Welcome sign to Pālolo Valley.jpg

|imagesize = 280px

|image_caption = Welcome sign in Pālolo

|pushpin_map = United States Oahu#USA Hawaii

|pushpin_map_caption = Location on Oʻahu, Hawaii

|pushpin_relief = yes

|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = {{flagu|United States}}

|subdivision_type1 = State

|subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Hawaii}}

|subdivision_type2 = County

|subdivision_name2 = 22px Honolulu

|subdivision_type3 = City

|subdivision_name3 = 22px Honolulu

|subdivision_type4 =

|subdivision_name4 =

|government_footnotes =

|leader_title = Mayor

|leader_name = Rick Blangiardi

|leader_title1 = Council

|leader_name1 = {{Collapsible list

|title = Members

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|1 = 1. Kymberly Marcos Pine

|2 = 2. Ernest Y. Martin

|3 = 3. Ikaika Anderson

|4 = 4. Trevor Ozawa

|5 = 5. Ann Kobayashi

|6 = 6. Carol Fukunaga

|7 = 7. Joey Manahan

|8 = 8. Brandon Elefante

|9 = 9. Ron Menor

}}

|leader_title2 = State Senate District HI-10

|leader_name2 = Les Ihara Jr.

|leader_title3 = State House District HI-20

|leader_name3 = Jackson Sayama

|leader_title4 = Pālolo Neighborhood Board

|leader_name4 = {{Collapsible list

|title = Members{{cite web|title=PALOLO NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD NO. 6|url=http://www.honolulu.gov/cms-nco-menu/site-nco-featured/191-site-nco-cat/682-test.html#NB6|year=2017|accessdate=28 Oct 2017|publisher=City and County of Honolulu}}

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|1 = 1. Randolph C. Hack (Chair)

|2 = 2. Beverly K.S. Mau (Vice Chair)

|3 = 3. Darlene H. Nakayama (Secretary)

|4 = 4. Earl Shiraki (Sergeant-at-Arms)

|5 = 5. Barbra J. Armentrout (Treasurer)

|6 = 6. Paul Holtrop

|7 = 7. Rusti J. Onishi

|8 = 8. Mark Leo

|9 = 9. Bradley T. Rentz

|10 = 10. Joshua Robert Frost

}}

|population_as_of = 2010

|population_note =

|population_total = 12,620

|population_density_km2 = 1,242

|timezone = Hawaiian (HST)

|utc_offset = −10

|coordinates = {{coord|21|17|44.8|N|157|47|48.4|W|region:US-HI|display=inline,title}}

|postal_code_type = Zip Code

|postal_code = 96816

|area_code = 808

}}

Pālolo is the name of a valley, stream, and residential neighborhood in Honolulu, Hawaii, the United States.{{Hawaiian Dictionaries |Pālolo |q=Palolo |dic=pp |accessdate= November 12, 2010 }} The area lies approximately four miles east and inland from downtown Honolulu, less than a mile from Diamond Head. Like many of Hawaii's neighborhoods, Pālolo consists of an entire valley. The mauka (mountain-side) of the valley is agricultural in nature. The makai (ocean-side) of the valley ends approximately at Waiʻalae Avenue and is densely settled, mostly with single-family homes.

In the Hawaiian land use system, Pālolo is an ʻili of the Waikīkī ahupuaʻa in moku of Kona (Honolulu).{{cite report|title=Final Rules of Practice and Procedure Department of Land and Natural Resources ʻAha Moku Advisory Committee|year=2016|url=http://www.ahamoku.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/FINAL.AMAC_.Admin_.Rules_.effective.102016.pdf}}

Pālolo includes the Kaʻau Crater, an extinct volcano in the mountains at the back of the valley.

Pālolo Stream runs through the valley before joining Manoa stream to form the Mānoa-Pālolo drainage canal, which flows into the Ala Wai Canal.{{GNIS |363074 |Pālolo Stream }}

In the Hawaiian language, pālolo means "clay".

Jarrett Middle School[http://jarrett.k12.hi.us/ Jarrett Middle School Website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423040055/http://jarrett.k12.hi.us/ |date=April 23, 2012 }} and Pālolo Elementary School[http://palolo.hidoe.us/ Pālolo Elementary School Website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724204751/http://palolo.hidoe.us/ |date=July 24, 2011 }} are located in Pālolo.

Pālolo Valley is bordered on the mauka end by the Koʻolau Range, to the Koko Head (approximately East) side by Wilhelmina Rise, on the makai end by the neighborhood of Kaimuki, and on the ʻEwa (approximately west) side by Waʻahila Ridge.