Water Pump (Honiara) Water Pump (Honiara) Water Pump is a community in Honiara, Solomon Islands located about West from the center of the city. The Water Pump area also accommodates the Kovi & Kongulai water catchment area of square which supplies water for Honiara from the Kovi and Kongulai rivers. The area consists of forest and surrounding watershed system. It is located in an undisturbed area within a unique terrain and landscape. The Kovi River is surrounded by riparian vegetation that includes mosses, herbs, ferns, palms and trees. The river is sourced from ground water that flows out of a limestone rock over
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Honiara Archdiocese also hosts the provincial seminary, Holy Name of Mary Seminary Tenaru, which was founded in 1995. Holy Cross Cathedral, Honiara, stands on the site where it is thought that the Spanish explorer Mendaña erected a cross when he arrived in 1568. Thus had the explorer given Honiara its first name, Santa Cruz. A large church intended to be used for episcopal ceremonial was erected at Visale in 1923, but it and the remains of the murdered Bishop Épalle which had been interred there were lost to earthquake in 1930. From that time Bishop Aubin based his operations at Tanagai.