Waipawa
Waipawa is the second-largest town in Central Hawke's Bay in the east of the North Island of New Zealand. At the 2001 Census it had a population of 1,872, a change of -2.0 percent since the 1996 census.
The town is located 7 km northeast of Waipukurau and 46 km southwest of Hastings, on the northern bank of the Waipawa River, a tributary of the Tukituki River.[1][2]
It holds the main office of the district council, and holds the distinction of being Aotearoa's oldest inland European settlement.
Notes
- ↑ Peter Dowling (editor): Reed New Zealand Atlas. Reed Books, 2004, ISBN 0-7900-0952-8, S. map 42.
- ↑ Roger Smith, GeographX: The Geographic Atlas of New Zealand. Robbie Burton, 2005, ISBN 1-877333-20-4, S. map 108.