Koputaroa

{{short description|Settlement in the Horowhenua District, New Zealand}}

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Koputaroa, Koputāroa or Kōputaroa{{Cite web|last=Taonga|first=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu|title=Horowhenua|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/manawatu-and-horowhenua-places/page-9|access-date=2021-04-13|website=teara.govt.nz|language=en}} is a rural community in the Horowhenua District and Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island.

It is located south of Shannon and north of Levin on State Highway 57. It had a railway station from 1886{{Cite web|date=31 Jul 1886|title=MANAWATU RAILWAY COMPANY, LIMITED TIME TABLE. EVENING POST|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18860731.2.68|access-date=2021-04-13|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz}} to 1986.{{Cite web|last=Scoble|first=Juliet|date=|title=Names & Opening & Closing Dates of Railway Stations in New Zealand 1863 to 2010|url=http://railheritage.org.nz/assets/Dates_and_names.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124135845/http://railheritage.org.nz/assets/Dates_and_names.pdf|archive-date=24 January 2018|access-date=|website=Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand}}

The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "long snare for catching parakeets" for Kōputaroa.{{Cite web|url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/maori-language-week/1000-maori-place-names|title=1000 Māori place names|publisher=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage|date=6 August 2019}}