page_title: Tarawera Falls
hierarchical_section_title: Tarawera Falls
caption_attribution_description: English: Lower portion of Tarawera Falls on the Tarawera River (21 January 2005.) Photograph by James Shook, who retains copyright and releases the image under the license shown below.
context_page_description: Tarawera Falls is a 65 m high waterfall on the Tarawera River in the Bay of Plenty region in New Zealand's North Island.
  The Tarawera River flows out of Lake Tarawera and across a rhyolitic lava flow that erupted from Mt Tarawera about 11,000 years ago. The river disappears about 30 metres back from the clifftop into flooded caves in the lava and pours out halfway up the cliff on the far side of the flow.
  After rain, part of the flow passes over the top of the cliff as a 65 m tall companion fall.
  Access is from the town of Kawerau and is a drive of about 45 minutes over unsealed roads, followed by a walk of about 20 minutes. A forestry access permit is required, available from the Information Centre in Kawerau.
context_section_description: Tarawera Falls is a 65 m high waterfall on the Tarawera River in the Bay of Plenty region in New Zealand's North Island.
  The Tarawera River flows out of Lake Tarawera and across a rhyolitic lava flow that erupted from Mt Tarawera about 11,000 years ago. The river disappears about 30 metres back from the clifftop into flooded caves in the lava and pours out halfway up the cliff on the far side of the flow.
  After rain, part of the flow passes over the top of the cliff as a 65 m tall companion fall.
  Access is from the town of Kawerau and is a drive of about 45 minutes over unsealed roads, followed by a walk of about 20 minutes.  A forestry access permit is required, available from the Information Centre in Kawerau.
caption: Lower part of Tarawera Falls, gushing out of fissures in the cliff
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