Matamata-Piako District

The Matamata - Piako District is one of the 70 districts in New Zealand. It lies on the North Island in the Waikato region east of Hamilton, New Zealand's fourth-largest metropolitan area.

Geography

The district is bordered to the north by the Hauraki District, on the east by the Western Bay of Plenty District - which is already in the Bay of Plenty region, in the south to the South Waikato District and to the west by the Waipa and Waikato districts.

Consequently, the district has no direct border to the sea. The main section is dominated especially in the north of the Hauraki Plains, a south-west of the Coromandel Peninsula incipient coastal plain. These are crossed by two smaller rivers: the Piako River and the Waihou / Thames River before they open west of the Coromandel Peninsula in the Hauraki Gulf. The Kaimai Ranges, a central mountain chain, form the natural border of the district in the east.

Population

The largest towns are Matamata and Morrinsville, both with about 6000 inhabitants. However, the administrative center of the district is the one with 3700 inhabitants somewhat smaller Te Aroha in the northern part of the district. The proportion of the population is of European origin with 89.7 % higher than the New Zealand -wide average.

Economy

The largest sector of the economy of the district is agriculture, especially dairy farming here, but it is operated on the flat land and agriculture. For tourists, particularly the Firth Tower, a 1882 finished tower, which was rebuilt after a fire in 1902 again and now serves as a museum, interesting.

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