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Tāngarākau River
Tangarakau Bridge, New Zealand, 1968.jpg
Country New Zealand
Physical characteristics
River mouth Whanganui River
Length 26 km (16 mi)
Tangarakau Gorge, a road bridge and grave site. ATLIB 286519
Road bridge through Tāngarākau Gorge and gravesite for surveryor beneath it, circa.1916

The Tāngarākau River is a river of the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It flows south from its sources to the northeast of Whangamōmona in the King Country to reach the Whanganui River. State Highway 43, known as the Forgotten World Highway, travels through the Tāngarākau Gorge.

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