Thames-Coromandel District

The Thames - Coromandel District is located in the Waikato region in the North Island of New Zealand. Administrative seat is the town of Thames.

Geography

The Thames - Coromandel District occupies the largest part of the Coromandel Peninsula. The southern regions of the peninsula belong to the adjoining Hauraki District. The west coast forms part of the Hauraki Gulf, including large parts of the Firth of Thames. In the north and east borders the district to the South Pacific. The landscape, called Coromandel Range is hilly and rises in the center to about 900 m at.

The northernmost point of the peninsula is Cape Colville; about further north - separated by the Colville Channel by the district - is the Great Barrier Island, which belongs to the city district of Auckland.

Population

The administrative headquarters, Thames is, with about 6800 inhabitants also the largest city in the district. In addition, there are only four other villages with more than 1,000 inhabitants: Coromandel, Whitianga, Tairua and Whangamata. With a share of 91.7 % of the residents of European origin make up by far the majority. The district is so far above the national average. Approximately 15 % of the population are Maori; here it live only very little people of Asian origin or from the Pacific Islands. In these figures it should be noted that one can feel in New Zealand several ethical groups belonging.

Although the district (until 2004) suffered a slight decline in population in recent years, it is mainly used as a second home or holiday / weekend residence by residents of the metropolitan Auckland always interesting.

Economy

If, said in former times almost exclusively by forestry precisely also the district lived the export of Kauri trees, today tourism is by far the largest sector represents the area attracts among other eco - tourists, through the rain forests in the center of the district hike. In the coastal towns of numerous New Zealanders spend their holidays and many rich Aucklanders buy holiday homes close to the sandy beaches.