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.

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

-37.92222° or 37° 55′ 20″ south

Longitude

175.54078° or 175° 32′ 27″ east

Population

477

Elevation

88 metres (289 feet)

Open location code

4VJQ3GHR+48

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3327951433

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

6235859

Wikidata 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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