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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 ...
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 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 (/ ˈ hw ɒ ŋ ən uː i / ⓘ; [4] Māori:), also spelt Wanganui, [5] is a city in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand.The city is located on the west coast of the North Island at the mouth of the Whanganui River, New Zealand's longest navigable waterway.
The Whanganui National Park is a national park located in the North Island of New Zealand. Established in 1986, [1] it covers an area of 742 km 2 bordering the Whanganui River. [2] It incorporates areas of Crown land, former state forest and a number of former reserves.
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]
Manunui (Māori: Mananui) is a small Whanganui River settlement, about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east of Taumarunui on State Highway 4, in New Zealand's King Country. It was once known as Waimarino, but John Burnand of the Ellis and Burnand sawmilling firm renamed it Manunui around 1905. [2]
The river is now called the Whanganui River. In September 1912 press reports said that: [1] [2] There will be a big Maori gathering shortly at Paranui, a place some 15 miles above Pipiriki, on the Wanganui River, to open a new native meeting-house. Several hundreds of Maoris from all parts of the district are expected to attend.