Taupiri
Sign in to saveTaupiri is a small town of about 500 people on the eastern bank of the Waikato River in the Waikato District of New Zealand. It is overlooked by Taupiri mountain, the sacred burial ground for the Waikato tribes of the Māori people, located just to the north.
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Demographics
- Taupiri-Lake Kainui statistical area
- History and culture
- Pre-European history
- Post-European history
- Marae
- Education
- References
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2. Taupiri is part of the larger Taupiri-Lake Kainui statistical area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Taupiri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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