Waitomo
Waitomo is a district in the North Island of New Zealand whose main feature is its limestone caves and their glowworm inhabitants, a major tourist attraction.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: district of New Zealand with 9,950 residents
- Description: territorial authority district in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Waitomo County” and “Waitomo District”
Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Piopio College and Wairere Power Station.
Piopio College
School
Piopio College is a coeducational secondary school in Piopio, a town in the Waitomo District of New Zealand.
Wairere Power Station
Electrical generator
The Wairere Power Station is a hydroelectric power facility in the Waikato region in New Zealand which makes use of water from the Mokau River. Water is drawn from behind a dam above the Wairere Falls, which diverts the water through two penstocks to the Wairere Power Station, before being discharged back into the Mokau River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Piopio.
Piopio
Village
Piopio is a small town in the Waitomo District. It is situated on State Highway 3 approximately 23 km from Te Kūiti.
Waitomo
- Location: Waikato, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Satellite Map
Discover Waitomo from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Western Panjabi—“Waitomo” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Waitomo District”
- Chinese: “懷托摩區”
- Czech: “Waitomo District”
- Dutch: “Waitomo District”
- French: “District de Waitomo”
- French: “Waitomo District”
- French: “Waitomo”
- German: “Waitomo District”
- Italian: “distretto di Waitomo”
- Italian: “Distretto di Waitomo”
- Japanese: “ワイトモ地区”
- Japanese: “ワイトモ郡”
- Korean: “와이토모”
- Malay: “Daerah Waitomo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Waitomo District”
- Russian: “Ваитомо”
- Russian: “Вайтомо”
- Spanish: “Waitomo”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع وائیٹومو”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Waitomo”. Photo: Kristina D.C. Hoeppner, CC BY-SA 2.0.