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Tūrangi
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Tūrangi is a small town on the west bank of the Tongariro River, 50 kilometres south-west of Taupō on the North Island Volcanic Plateau of New Zealand. It was built to accommodate the workers associated with the Tongariro hydro-electric power development project and their families. The town was designed to remain as a small servicing centre for the exotic forest plantations south of Lake Taupō and for tourists. It is well known for its trout fishing and calls itself "the trout fishing capital of the world". The major Māori hapū (tribe) of the Tūrangi area is Ngāti Tūrangitukua.
Key facts
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- Ohuanga Road
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- New Zealand
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- Waikato
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- Taupō District
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- Taupō District Council
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- Waikato Regional Council
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- Mayor of Taupō
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Climate
- Population and demographics
- Economy
- History
- Māori settlement
- Non-Māori settlement
- Tongariro power development
- Treaty settlement
- Marae
- Government
- Education
- Sister city
- References
- External links
Tūrangi is a small town on the west bank of the Tongariro River, 50 kilometres south-west of Taupō on the North Island Volcanic Plateau of New Zealand. It was built to accommodate the workers associated with the Tongariro hydro-electric power development project and their families. The town was designed to remain as a small servicing centre for the exotic forest plantations south of Lake Taupō and for tourists. It is well known for its trout fishing and calls itself "the trout fishing capital of the world". The major Māori hapū (tribe) of the Tūrangi area is Ngāti Tūrangitukua.
==Geography== The Tūrangi area covers some 2273 km², and is located close to the edge of the Kaimanawa Ranges and ten kilometres north of the stretch of State Highway 1 known as the Desert Road.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tūrangi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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