Tuparoa (Purapura-A-Ure) Maori Cemetery
Tuparoa (Purapura-A-Ure) Maori Cemetery is a cemetery in Gisborne District, East Coast. Tuparoa (Purapura-A-Ure) Maori Cemetery is situated nearby to the cemetery St. Matthew’s Churchyard, as well as near the hamlet Whareponga.- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Tuparoa Maori Cemetery”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whareponga and Ruatoria.
Whareponga
Hamlet
Whareponga is a bay and rural community in the Gisborne District of New Zealand's North Island. It is located north of Waipiro Bay, and is the mouth of Whareponga Stream and Wharekaka Stream. Whareponga is situated 6 km south of Tuparoa (Purapura-A-Ure) Maori Cemetery.
Ruatoria
Village
Ruatoria is a town in the Waiapu Valley of the Gisborne Region in the northeastern corner of New Zealand's North Island. The town was originally known as Cross Roads then Manutahi and was later named Ruatorea in 1913, after the Māori Master female grower Tōrea who had some of the finest storage pits in her Iwi at the time. Ruatoria is situated 7 km west of Tuparoa (Purapura-A-Ure) Maori Cemetery.
Tuparoa (Purapura-A-Ure) Maori Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Gisborne District, East Coast, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.91484° or 37° 54′ 53″ southLongitude
178.38942° or 178° 23′ 22″ eastOpen location code
4VJW39PQ+3QOpenStreetMap ID
way 1473283462OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryWikidata ID
Q105700908
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In Other Languages
“Tuparoa (Purapura-A-Ure) Maori Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Maori: “Purapura-A-Ure Urupa”
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Highlights include St. Matthew’s Churchyard and St. Matthew’s Church.
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