New Zealand
North Island
Auckland Region

Tarawera Falls

Tarawera Falls is a 65 m high waterfall on the in the region in 's . The Tarawera River flows out of and across a rhyolitic lava flow that erupted from Mt Tarawera about 14,000 years ago.
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Tarawera Falls

Latitude
-38.16304° or 38° 9′ 47″ south
Longitude
176.52044° or 176° 31′ 14″ east
Elevation
429 metres (1,407 feet)
Height
65 metres (213 feet)
Open location code
4VHRRGPC+Q5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3782824299
Open­Street­Map feature
waterway=­waterfall
Geo­Names ID
6236749
Wiki­data ID
Q37274
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Satellite Map

Discover Tarawera Falls from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Tarawera Falls” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Tarawera ur-jauzia”
  • Catalan: “Cascades Tarawera”
  • Cebuano: “Tarawera Falls”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاراويرا فالس”
  • German: “Tarawera Falls”
  • Mazanderani: “ئوشار تاراورا”
  • Mazanderani: “تاراورا ئوشار”
  • Persian: “آبشار تاراورا”
  • Persian: “ابشار تاراورا”
  • Tajik: “Обшори Таравера”
  • Tajik: “Таравера”
  • Tajik: “Шаршараи Таравера”
  • Urdu: “تراویرا آبشار”
  • Vietnamese: “thác Tarawera”
  • Western Panjabi: “تراویرا آبشار”

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