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Upokongaro
Upokongaro is a settlement upriver from Whanganui, New Zealand. Its name in Māori, ''upoko'' (head) ''ngaro'' (hidden), refers to a story of how, upon her death, the high-ranking woman Ira-nga-rangi had her head removed and hidden by relatives, who feared it might be desecrated by enemies. Supposedly the preserved head was hidden in a cave, on the banks of the stream from which the settlement takes its name.
At the time of European colonisation, both Upokongaro and a nearby settlement Waipakura were home to the Ngāti Patutokotoko hapū of the iwi Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi. It was one of a number of native reserves set aside in the 1848 Deed of Sale. Upokongaro was described as a "small pā" in 1865, and Māori settlement persisted until at least the 1880s.
St Mary's Anglican Church is distinctive in having a spire with a triangular cross-section on a four-sided steeple. Built in 1877, it is the oldest church in the Whanganui District on its original site.
In the 1930s, thousands of moa bones were recovered from mud springs in the Upokongaro Valley at Makirikiri by a Wanganui Museum expedition. Life-sized concrete moa sculptures commemorating this can be seen on the main road outside the Upokongaro Cafe.
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