Manunui
Manunui is a small Whanganui River settlement, about 6 kilometres 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Quarter with 546 residents
- Description: locality in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Manu nui” and “Manunui Town District”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Piriaka Power Station.
Piriaka Power Station
Electrical generator
The Piriaka power station is a hydroelectric power facility in Manawatū-Whanganui in New Zealand which draws water from behind a weir on the Whanganui River near Piriaka and diverts it through a canal and penstock to the Piriaka Power Station, which is located approximately 9 km southeast of the town of Taumarunui, via SH4. Piriaka Power Station is situated 2½ km southeast of Manunui.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Piriaka and Taumarunui.
Piriaka
Hamlet
Piriaka is a small rural settlement beside the Whanganui River, about 10 kilometres southeast of Taumarunui on State Highway 4, in New Zealand's King Country. Piriaka is situated 3½ km south of Manunui.
Taumarunui
Photo: ShakyIsles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Taumarunui is a town of almost 5,000 people in Whanganui in a central part of the North Island of New Zealand.
Kakahi
Hamlet
Kakahi ) is a small King Country settlement about 10 kilometres up the Whanganui River from Taumarunui, New Zealand. Founded as a sawmill town, it takes its name from the Māori word for the New Zealand freshwater mussel. Kakahi is situated 7 km southeast of Manunui.
Manunui
- Category: locality
- Location: Ruapehu District, Manawatū–Whanganui, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-38.89157° or 38° 53′ 30″ southLongitude
175.32546° or 175° 19′ 32″ eastPopulation
546Elevation
186 metres (610 feet)Open location code
4VHQ485G+95OpenStreetMap ID
node 1682731213OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
2187401Wikidata ID
Q6753166
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In Other Languages
From French to Turkish—“Manunui” goes by many names.
- French: “Manunui”
- Maori: “Manunui”
- Turkish: “Manunui”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Manunui”. Photo: Inkey, Public domain.