page_title: Ruatahuna
hierarchical_section_title: Ruatahuna
caption_attribution_description: English: View of three rua kumara (pits for storing kumara), dug into the side of a hill, at Ruatahuna. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1930.
context_page_description: The town of Ruatahuna is located in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island, 90 kilometres west of Gisborne, and 18 kilometres northwest of Lake Waikaremoana. It is situated on the unsealed part of SH38, from Wai-O-Tapu via Murupara to Wairoa.
  A small town in the upper reaches of the Whakatāne River, Ruatahuna is in the remote country of the Ureweras, and is surrounded on three sides by the former Te Urewera National Park. The area was the site of much action during the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s and 1870s.
  It is a subdivision of the Galatea-Murupara ward of the Whakatāne District.
context_section_description: The town of Ruatahuna is located in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island, 90 kilometres west of Gisborne, and 18 kilometres northwest of Lake Waikaremoana. It is situated on the unsealed part of SH38, from Wai-O-Tapu via Murupara to Wairoa.
  A small town in the upper reaches of the Whakatāne River, Ruatahuna is in the remote country of the Ureweras, and is surrounded on three sides by the former Te Urewera National Park. The area was the site of much action during the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s and 1870s.
  It is a subdivision of the Galatea-Murupara ward of the Whakatāne District.
caption: Food storage pits.for kumara (sweet potato) at Ruatahuna in 1930
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