Tiriara is a

lake A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much large ...

in the south of the island of

Mangaia Mangaia (traditionally known as A'ua'u Enua, which means ''terraced'') is the most southerly of the Cook Islands and the second largest, after Rarotonga. It is a roughly circular island, with an area of , from Rarotonga. Originally heavily popula ...

in the

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. Though the largest freshwater lake in the Cook Islands, poor pollution management and agricultural processes in the area have put the biodiversity of the lake at risk.

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Sources https://web.archive.org/web/20120128032425/http://www.seacology.org/projects/individualprojects/COOKISLANDS_lake2001.htm Lakes of the Cook Islands Mangaia {{CookIslands-geo-stub

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