Te Kawa is a rural community in the Ōtorohanga District and Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island.

[3] It lies just to the south of the volcanic hills of Kakepuku and Te Kawa.

[8][9] A post office was open by 1909[10] and a dairy factory and a school existed in 1913.

[15] Te Kawa settlement is in three SA1 statistical areas which cover 40.30 km2 (15.56 sq mi).

[17] Te Kawa hill is 214 m (702 ft) high and just to the north of the village.

[18] The 'Geology of the Waikato Area'[19] says, "The Alexandra Volcanic Group consists of several low-angle composite cones, including Karioi, Pirongia, Kakepuku, Te Kawa and Tokanui volcanoes, aligned southeast from Mount Karioi on the coast to Tokanui."

It was formed in the Late Pliocene to earliest Pleistocene of subduction-related basaltic magmas.

[20] Te Kawa is the only Alexandra Volcanic with a crater remaining.