Maungatautari is a mountain near Cambridge in the Waikato region in New Zealand's central North Island.

After settling at the Kawhia Harbour, Rakatāura and his wife Kahukeke explored the interior of the Waikato.

[3] The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "mountain of the upright stick" for Maungatautari.

A wide range of volcanic rocks are found from pumiceous and ash flow deposits near the summit and hydrothermally altered andesite on its southern flanks to labradorite, pyroxene, and hornblende andesite and dacite in the bulk of the stratovolcano and a small cone of olivine basalt is located at Kairangi, 7 km (4.3 mi) to the northwest.

Maungatautari's surface ring plain deposits are mainly on the northern and northeastern flanks and include a prominent rock and debris avalanche to the north east of volume 0.28 cubic kilometres (0.067 cu mi),[5] as to its south and east the flanks are covered by the younger and very thick ignimbrite sheets from the massive Mangakino caldera complex eruptions of about 1 million years ago.