The whare tupuna is Tainui a Whiro. Our marae connects to the Tainui waka, the moana Whaingāroa, the awa Wainui and the maunga Karioi.
The current meeting house at Poihakena marae stands on the whenua of Ngati te Ikaunahi, and was built in the late 1950‘s at Wahanui to replace Miria te Kakara which was destroyed by the government in 1941. Poihakena marae stands on the same block which stretches to the Pokohue awa.
Address : Whaingaroa, 220 Wainui Road, Raglan 3297