Wairewa Marae
papatipu marae, Te Rūnanga o Wairewa — Ngāti Irakehu and Ngāti Makō of Ngāi Tahu
papatipu marae
The record
- Wharenui
- Te Makō
- Wharekai
- Te Rōpūake
- It serves
- Te Rūnanga o Wairewa — Ngāti Irakehu and Ngāti Makō of Ngāi Tahu
- Iwi
- Ngāi Tahu
- Hapū
- Ngāti Irakehu · Ngāti Makō
- Address
- 4345 Christchurch–Akaroa Road, Little River
- Street
- Christchurch–Akaroa Road
- Suburb
- Little River
- District
- Christchurch City
- Reserve
- Māori Reserve 887
What the directories say
Te Rūnanga o Wairewa's marae in the Ōkana valley beside Te Roto o Wairewa — four meeting houses have stood on the same footprint since 1855, every one named Makō, after the ancestor who claimed the south of the peninsula. Whare and wharekai stand paired as husband and wife: Te Makō and Te Rōpūake.
The marae’s own kōrero
The marae’s own telling belongs to its people, these doors go to their sites and the directories they speak through.
In the archive
A document a search names is a lead worth reading, not a claim the site makes.
The roll beside it
The kāinga and pā the record names nearest it, Waikākahi Pā (9.2 km) · Ōnawe Pā (12.5 km).
Nearest on the roll by distance, proximity, not kinship; each marae’s own kōrero lives with its people.
The green nearby 2
Parks whose drawn outline sits within 400 m, measured to the outline itself, so a place on a big reserve’s edge still counts.
The reports nearby
1 council report pinned within 250 m of the place, most often Trees & parks. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Questions, answered briefly
4345 Christchurch–Akaroa Road, Little River, Christchurch, on the map →.
Te Makō, the wharekai is Te Rōpūake, as the directories the marae speaks through state it.
Iwi: Ngāi Tahu. Hapū: Ngāti Irakehu, Ngāti Makō.
papatipu marae, it serves Te Rūnanga o Wairewa — Ngāti Irakehu and Ngāti Makō of Ngāi Tahu. It stands in Christchurch City.
Sources: Wairewa Marae — official site · Ngāi Tahu — Wairewa papatipu rūnanga · Wairewa Marae — Christchurch City Libraries Ti Kōuka Whenua · Environment Canterbury — Ngāi Tahu Papatipu Rūnanga Marae layer.
A directory, not a history: name, wharenui, affiliation and address as each rūnanga and the public directories state them. A listing is a lead, not a claim, each marae’s own kōrero lives with its people and is linked, not retold, here. Coordinates pin the marae site as the map layers and directories place it.