The Kuratau River is a river of the centre of

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. It flows generally eastwards, initially flowing southeast from its sources in rough hill country south of the

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before turning northeast to reach the small Lake Kuratau. From here it flows east further before flowing into the southwest of

Lake Taupō Lake Taupō (also spelled Taupo; mi, Taupō-nui-a-Tia or ) is a large crater lake in New Zealand's North Island, located in the caldera of the Taupō Volcano. The lake is the namesake of the town of Taupō, which sits on a bay in the lake's nor ...

close to the settlement of

Kuratau Kuratau is a small village north of Pukawa, on the western side of New Zealand's Lake Taupō. The Kuratau Power Station was built on the Kuratau River near the town and completed in 1962. The local Poukura Marae and Parekawa meeting house ...

. Waters from the river are used for power generation at the

Kuratau Power Station The Kuratau power station is a hydroelectric power facility in Kuratau on the western side of Lake Taupō in New Zealand which makes use of water from the Kuratau River. The river is impounded behind a dam to form Lake Kuratau before discharging ...

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Taupō District Rivers of Waikato Rivers of New Zealand {{Waikato-river-stub

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