Tauweru, alternatively Taueru, and previously known as Wardell,[1] or Wardelltown[2] is a locality[3] in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand's North Island.

It is named after and located on the middle reaches of the Tauweru River, which drains into the Ruamahanga River near Gladstone and Te Whiti, and the name is a Māori-language word meaning "hanging in clusters".

[4] The nearest railway is the Wairarapa Line in Masterton.

In June 1942, Tauweru was the epicentre of one of the most destructive earthquakes since European settlement of the Wairarapa in the mid-19th century.

[5] Tauweru is part of the Whareama statistical area.