Manoa
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Mānoa is a valley and a residential neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, USA approximately three miles east and inland from downtown Honolulu and less than a mile from Ala Moana and Waikīkī at . Like many of Hawaiʻi's neighborhoods, Mānoa consists of an entire valley, running from Mānoa Falls at the mauka end to King Street at its makai-most extreme. The valley receives almost daily rain, even during the dry season, and is thus richly vegetated &mdash though the valley walls are often dry.
The neighborhood is composed of private houses built before the 1960s and low-rise condominiums. Mānoa is home to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi System. The University has several faculty and student residence areas in Mānoa. The civic center of Mānoa is the Mānoa Marketplace which features a farmer's market several days of the week. More recent development has seen housing on steeper parts of the Diamond Head side valley wall.
Mānoa is the site of the first sugarcane and coffee plantations in the Hawaiian Islands. John Wilkinson (planter)[1] tended the first crops in 1825. Today, coffee is one of the most precious agricultural products from Hawaiʻi. Hawaiʻi is the only state that produces coffee commercially in the country.
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Manoa is also another name (used by natives) for El Dorado. It describes either the city itself or the lake close to it or the whole region. Another name used is Omoa.
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