Tides & Towns
Kauaʻi · HI

Līhuʻe

Kauaʻi's county seat, above Nāwiliwili Harbor.

Population
8,004 (2020 census)
Seat of government
1837
First Lutheran church in Hawaii
1883

Then

  1. 1837

    Royal Governor Kaikioʻewa moves his seat here from Waimea and names it for land he owned on Oʻahu.

  2. 1856

    William Harrison Rice builds the sugar plantation's first irrigation system.

  3. 1881

    Planter Paul Isenberg begins bringing German immigrants.

  4. 1883

    Hawaii's first Lutheran church is founded. Services stay in German into the 1960s.

Now

Līhuʻe is the Kauaʻi County seat, with the island's airport and its main seaport at Nāwiliwili. The name means "cold chill."

2 tide stations around Līhuʻe

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