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Pātea
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thumb|The Aotea canoe remembrance arch in Pātea Pātea ( ) is the third-largest town in South Taranaki District, New Zealand. It is on the western bank of the Pātea River, 61 kilometres north-west of Whanganui on . Hāwera is 27 km to the north-west, and Waverley 17 km to the east. The Pātea River flows through the town from the north-east and into the South Taranaki Bight.
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Pātea is a locality in New Zealand, situated within the South Taranaki District. It is located in or next to the Pātea River. The settlement operates under the Pacific/Auckland timezone.
Population figures for the area vary by source. One record lists the population as 1240, while another source records it as 1286. The name is also recorded as Patea in some databases.
Street-level imagery is available for the location. A capture was made on 2022-10-21T23:10:40.268Z by the creator elphix. This specific image has a compass angle of 272.98889643111. There are four such images in total.
Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, GeoNames, Mapillary. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- locality
- Country
- New Zealand
- Located in
- South Taranaki District
- Population
- 1240
- Body of water
- Pātea River
- Image
- Patea, Main Road.jpg
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- Commons category
- Patea
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History and culture
- Pre-European history
- European settlement
- Patea Freezing Works
- Pātea Māori Club
- Recent history
- Marae
- Demographics
- Education
- Notable people
- Climate
- References
- External links
thumb|The Aotea canoe remembrance arch in Pātea Pātea ( ) is the third-largest town in South Taranaki District, New Zealand. It is on the western bank of the Pātea River, 61 kilometres north-west of Whanganui on . Hāwera is 27 km to the north-west, and Waverley 17 km to the east. The Pātea River flows through the town from the north-east and into the South Taranaki Bight.
==History and culture== ===Pre-European history=== Pātea is the traditional final place where some Māori led by Turi aboard the Aotea settled, after it was beached at the Aotea Harbour.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pātea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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