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Ele'ele

Ele'ele

1. Designated place in Hawai: 


Eleʻele (literally, "black" or "black water" in Hawaiian) is a census-designated place (CDP) on the island of Kauaʻi in Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi, United States, with the ZIP code of 96705.

Glass Beach, that is made of sea glass, is a local attraction. 

The population was 2,515 at the 2020 census, up from 2,040 at the 2000 census.

ʻEleʻele is located on the south side of the island of Kauai.

It is bordered to the west by Hanapepe, with the Hanapēpē River forming the boundary between the two communities.

Hawaii Route 50 passes through Eleele, leading east 6 km to Kalaheo and west 3 km to Kaumakani.

Lihue is 27 km to the east via Route 50.

Tropical savanna climates have monthly mean temperature above 18 °C in every month of the year and typically a pronounced dry season, with the driest month having precipitation less than 60 mm of precipitation. 

In essence, a tropical savanna climate tends to either see less rainfall than a tropical monsoon climate or have more pronounced dry seasons than a tropical monsoon climate.

The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "As".

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2. The first woman in Samoan mythology

Ele'ele: in Polynesian mythology, the first woman. Fetu ("star") is the god of the night.

His wife is Ele'ele.

Samoan mythology is a variant of a more general Polynesian mythology in the Samoa Islands.

Samoan culture tells stories of many different deities.

There were deities of the forest, the seas, rain, harvest, villages, and war.

There were two types of deities, atua, who had non-human origins, and aitu, who were of human origin.

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