Waipawa

Waipawa is the second-largest town in Central Hawke's Bay in the east of the North Island of New Zealand. It has a population of 2,430. The town is located 7 kilometres northeast of Waipukurau and 46 km southwest of Hastings, on the northern bank of the Waipawa River, a tributary of the Tukituki River.

Photo: Giantflightlessbirds, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Type: Town with 2,360 residents
Description: town in New Zealand
Also known as: “Abbotsford”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ōtāne and Waipukurau.

Ōtāne

Village

Ōtāne is a town in the Central Hawke's Bay District and the Hawke's Bay region, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. The small village has a school, general store, cafe and pub, and is located just off State Highway 2. Ōtāne is situated 6 km northeast of Waipawa.

Waipukurau

Photo: Jam74, Public domain.

Waipukurau is the largest town, with a population of 4,100, in the Central Hawke's Bay District on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand.

Waipawa

Category: locality
Location: Central Hawke’s Bay District, Hawke’s Bay, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-39.94174° or 39° 56′ 30″ south

Longitude

176.58929° or 176° 35′ 21″ east

Population

2,360

Elevation

138 metres (453 feet)

Open location code

4VGR3H5Q+8P

OpenStreetMap ID

node 606335186

OpenStreetMap feature

place=town

GeoNames ID

6251378

Wikidata ID

Q1292354

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Urdu—“Waipawa” goes by many names.

Asturian: “Waipawa”
Catalan: “Waipawa”
Cebuano: “Waipawa”
Dutch: “Waipawa”
French: “Waipawa”
German: “Waipawa”
Hebrew: “אבוטספורד, ניו זילנד”
Hebrew: “וואיפאווה, ניו זילנד”
Hebrew: “וואיפאווה”
Hebrew: “וואיפוה, ניו זילנד”
Hebrew: “וואיפוה”
Japanese: “アボッツフォード”
Japanese: “ワイパワ”
Malay: “Waipawa”
Polish: “Waipawa”
Swedish: “Waipawa”
Turkish: “Waipawa”
Urdu: “وائی پاوا”
“Waipawa”

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