Pirongia was sited where it is because of its proximity to the Aukati (the confiscation line along the Puniu River) and because in those days this was as far up the Waipa River that river steamers, supplying the new frontier settlements, could safely travel.
The town is on gently undulating land close to the banks of a tributary of the Waipa River.
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