(in Maori culture) a cemetery or burial site.
the group visited seven urupa, all of them beautifully kept
Example sentencesExamples
- I would like to think that all New Zealanders were respectful of genuine urupa sites.
- There are urupa there, and we certainly respected them.
- They also lost control over some of their urupa and significant sites.
- It astounds me some people still deny the site was ever an urupa.
- If there were specific important urupa sites, then I would like to see them in a clear, protected property right.
- The trust was trying to determine whether the land had ever been used for an urupa.
- The group visited one last urupa to pay respects at the grave of a brother.
- There are at least two urupa on the estuary and sometimes bones come up and some of these have also been churned over.
- The grandmother said family members would gather at the urupa today for a commemorative service.
- The difficulty is that the local iwi who are denying that access are saying they do not like it because it disturbs their urupa.