Karapiro
Karapiro is a settlement and rural area in the Waipā District and Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. It includes both the artificially created Lake Karapiro and the accompanying Karāpiro Power Station.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 477 residents
- Description: locality in Waipa District, Waikato Region, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Karāpiro”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karāpiro Power Station.
Karāpiro Power Station
Dam
Photo: Air55, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Karāpiro Power Station is a hydroelectric power station at Lake Karapiro in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the last of the eight hydroelectric power stations on the Waikato River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include French Pass and Maungatautari.
French Pass
Locality
French Pass is a small settlement just east of Cambridge in the Waikato Region of New Zealand. The settlement is named after the road pass from Cambridge through to Whitehall. There was a road through the pass by 1887. French Pass is situated 4 km north of Karapiro.
Maungatautari
Hamlet
Maungatautari is a rural community in Waipā District, Waikato Region, New Zealand. It is located between Maungatautari Mountain and Lake Karapiro on the Waikato River. Maungatautari is situated 6 km southeast of Karapiro.
Cambridge
Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.
Cambridge is a tree-lined town with a very English feel, known as the Town of Trees. It is in the Waikato region of New Zealand, 24 km from the city of Hamilton.
Karapiro
- Category: locality
- Location: Waikato, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.92117° or 37° 55′ 16″ southLongitude
175.54033° or 175° 32′ 25″ eastPopulation
477Elevation
88 metres (289 feet)Open location code
4VJQ3GHR+G4OpenStreetMap ID
node 3327951433OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6235859Wikidata ID
Q65431260
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Maori to Turkish—“Karapiro” goes by many names.
- Maori: “Karapiro”
- Turkish: “Karapiro”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Karapiro”. Photo: tara hunt, CC BY-SA 2.0.