Kei'a (previously Te-apunavai) is one of the six traditional

districts A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions ...

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 popul ...

, which is part of the

Cook Islands The Cook Islands is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of 15 islands whose total land area is approximately . The Cook Islands' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers of ocean. Avarua is its ...

archipelago. It is located on the west side of the island, to the south of the District of Tava'enga and west of

Veitatei Veitatei (previously Patiki-enua-o-Rangi) is one of the six traditional districts of the island of Mangaia in the Cook Islands. It is located in the south of the island, to the east of the District of Kei'a and west of the District of Tamarua. Th ...

. The district was traditionally divided into 6 ''

tapere A Tapere or Sub-District is a low level of traditional land subdivision on five of the Southern Cook Islands (Rarotonga, Mangaia, Aitutaki, Atiu, and Mauke), comparable to the ahupua'a of the main Hawaiian Islands or to the kousapw of Pohnpei. ...

'': # Akaoro # Tapuata # Tongamarama # Te-inati # Rupetau-i-miri # Rupetau-i-uta The major habitation is the village of Oneroa, which is home to over half of the island's population. The Auraka cave is also in this district.

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Districts of the Cook Islands Mangaia {{CookIslands-geo-stub