Maharahara
Maharahara | |
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| Coordinates: 40°12′22″S 176°05′58″E / 40.20611°S 176.09944°E | |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Region | Manawatū-Whanganui |
| Territorial authority | Tararua District |
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| Electorates | |
| Government | |
| • Territorial Authority | Tararua District Council |
| • Regional council | Horizons Regional Council |
| Area | |
• Total | 65.2 km2 (25.2 sq mi) |
| Population (June 2024) | |
• Total | 273 |
| • Density | 4.2/km2 (11/sq mi) |
| Postcode(s) | 4972 |
Maharahara is the name of a 1,095 m (3,593 ft) hill in the Ruahine Range and of two small hamlets (Maharahara and Maharahara West), some 10 km (6.2 mi) to the south. The hamlets are south of Dannevirke, in the Manawatū River valley, of the Manawatū-Whanganui region.
The area is in a corridor used for transport and power transmission. Maharahara is about 4 km (2.5 mi) north of Waiaruhe, which is on State Highway 2 and, until 1975, had Maharahara railway station on the Palmerston North–Napier-Gisborne line. A 110kV transmission line runs through Maharahara. Electricity was first switched on in Maharahara in 1925. The First Gas pipeline between Feilding and Takapau runs to the north of Maharahara and opened on 30 September 1983.
Maharahara translates as anxious, or to remember someone’s faults.