We have been doing an inquiry about how the Manawatu gorge was formed and this is our class shared writing from the research we found about the gorge and how it was formed.
Our beautiful Manawatu gorge has a history.The Manawatu river ,which flows between the tararua and ruahine ranges ,is one of only two rivers in the world tht starts from one side of a mountain range and reaches sea on the other side.the rangitane people tell of a spirit named okatia who created the gorge by smashing through a rock wall as he traveled in a gigantic totara on. His way to the sea.After his tantrum, he slowly meandered across the Manawatu plain creating the lazy river we see today.Scientists tell us that the gorge began to be formed 1.5 million years ago.As the mountains rose up due to tectonic forces the river eroded a gap that came to be called the Manawatu.
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