Putāruru
Putāruru is a small town in the South Waikato District and the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. It lies on the western side of the Mamaku Ranges and in the upper basin of the Waihou River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 4,580 residents
- Description: town in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Putaruru”
Places of Interest
Highlights include New Zealand Timber Museum.
New Zealand Timber Museum
Museum
The New Zealand Timber Museum is located in Putāruru, New Zealand. Its main purpose is to celebrate and preserve the history of the timber industry in the South Waikato District with which it has had a connection dating back to the 1900s.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lichfield and Tīrau.
Lichfield
Hamlet
Lichfield is a rural settlement in the South Waikato District and Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. The community is centred around the Lichfield Fonterra facility, which opened in 1995. Lichfield is situated 7 km southeast of Putāruru.
Tīrau
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tīrau is a small town in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand, 50 kilometres southeast of Hamilton. The town has a population of 804. In the Māori language, "Tīrau" means "place of many cabbage trees." Tīrau is a major junction in the New Zealand state highway network, sitting at the junctions of State Highway 1, State Highway 5, and State Highway 27. Tīrau is situated 8 km north of Putāruru.
Tapapa
Locality
Tapapa is a rural community in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. Tapapa is situated 9 km northeast of Putāruru.
Putāruru
- Category: locality
- Location: South Waikato District, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-38.05117° or 38° 3′ 4″ southLongitude
175.77896° or 175° 46′ 44″ eastPopulation
4,580Elevation
167 metres (548 feet)United Nations Location Code
NZ PTROpen location code
4VHQWQXH+GHOpenStreetMap ID
node 331965781OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Putāruru” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Putāruru”
- Catalan: “Putaruru”
- Chinese: “普塔魯魯”
- Dutch: “Putaruru”
- French: “Putaruru”
- German: “Putaruru”
- German: “Putāruru”
- Japanese: “プタルル”
- Malay: “Putaruru”
- Maori: “Putāruru”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Putaruru”
- Polish: “Putaruru”
- Polish: “Putāruru”
- Portuguese: “Putāruru”
- Russian: “Путаруру”
- Swedish: “Putāruru”
- Turkish: “Putāruru”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Putaruru Post Shop and Putaruru Bridge Club.
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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 “Putāruru”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.