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Oneroa is the largest village on
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 ...
Island, 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 towards the west of the island, in the district of Kei'a, and contains over half of the island's population. Oneroa is a contiguous village area that consists of three villages, Tavaʻenga, Kaumata and Temakatea.Bryant James Allen: The Development of Commercial Agriculture on Mangaia: Social and Economic Change in a Polynesian Community. Masters Thesis, Massey University, 1969
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Populated places in the Cook Islands Mangaia {{CookIslands-geo-stub