Mangaweka

Mangaweka is a village on State Highway 1 in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region in the North Island of New Zealand. She had 2006 177 inhabitants in the census. The nearest large towns are Taihape in the North and Huntersville in the southwest. Nordöstliuch the village runs the Rangitikei River.

The once on the main road running through the town SH 1 was laid in the early 1980s. In addition to the thus obtained remaining main street with art shops are available in the on-site café with a certificate DC-3, rafting, fishing and hiking along the route of the former North Iceland Main Trunk with its tunnels, which were in 1981 no longer on them from a distance changes. At the Papa Cliffs at Rangitikei River trips with the zip line and bungee jumping are offered.

The city is a year in October and November, place the controversial exhibit " Fakes & Forgeries Art Exhibition and Festival ".

The place was marked to the laying of the track of the web. In the Mangaweka no longer frequented longest railway viaduct in New Zealand is with a length of 288 m.

Mangawatu has a church, St Patrick's Church and a primary school with 40 students in 2010.

People

  • Sam Hunt
  • Robin White, artist (his paintings " Mangaweka " hangs in the National Museum Te Papa Tongarewa )
  • Richard Aslett, Photographer
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