Patearoa is a small settlement in inland

Otago Otago (, ; mi, Ōtākou ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately , making it the country's second largest local government reg ...

in New Zealand's

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. It is located 20 kilometres southwest of Ranfurly, in the Maniototo (the upper valley of the

Taieri River The Taieri River is the fourth-longest river in New Zealand and is in Otago in the South Island. Rising in the Lammerlaw Range, it initially flows north, then east around the Rock and Pillar range before turning southeast, reaching the sea sou ...

) and was originally known as Sowburn. Andrew Buchanan was an early runholder in Patearoa.

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Populated places in Otago {{Otago-geo-stub