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The Whanganui River is a major river in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the country's third-longest river, and has special status owing to its importance to the region's Māori people . In March 2017 it became the world's second natural resource (after Te Urewera ) to be given its own legal identity, with the rights, duties and ...
Five years ago, the Whanganui River was recognized as a living person in a groundbreaking New Zealand law. Ngahuia Twomey-Waitai, 28, walks into the Whanganui River and reaches down to splash ...
The region is dominated and defined by two significant river catchments, the Whanganui and the Manawatu. The Whanganui River, in the northwest, is the longest navigable river in New Zealand. The river was extremely important to early Māori as it was the southern link in a chain of waterways that spanned almost two-thirds of the North Island ...
Whanganui Māori are the Māori iwi (tribes) and hapū (sub-tribes) of the Whanganui River area of New Zealand. They are also known as Ngāti Hau . One group of Whanganui Māori, Whanganui Iwi, includes Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi and other hapū who signed the Ruruku Whakatupua Treaty of Waitangi settlement in 2015.
The Ruaka Hall at Ranana, Whanganui River, New Zealand. Ranana is a settlement 60 kilometres (37 mi) up the Whanganui River from Whanganui, New Zealand.. Originally known as Kauika, it grew after 1848 as local Māori moved out of fortified pā settlements in peacetime. [1]
Whangaehu is a settlement in the Rangitikei District and Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island.. Whangaehu is located near the mouth of the Whangaehu River, a large river flowing from for 135 kilometres (84 mi) the crater lake of Mount Ruapehu on the central plateau, southward to the South Taranaki Bight in the Tasman Sea.
Most of the park is located in the Ruapehu District (Manawatū-Whanganui region), although the northeast is in the Taupō District (Waikato Region, or Hawke's Bay Region to the north). Three towns are adjacent to the park: Tūrangi, Waimarino (formerly called National Park Village) and Ohakune. Further away are Waiouru and Raetihi. [54]
This is a list of marae (Māori meeting grounds) in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand. [1] [2] In October 2020, the Government committed $7,139,349 from the Provincial Growth Fund to upgrade 33 marae in the region, with the intention of creating 560.5 jobs. [3]