Ōpōtiki

Also known as Opotiki

Ōpōtiki (; from Ōpōtiki-Mai-Tawhiti) is a town in the eastern Bay of Plenty in the North Island of New Zealand. It houses the headquarters of the Ōpōtiki District Council, the mayor of Ōpōtiki and comes under the Bay of Plenty Regional Council.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Ōpōtiki
Settlement.settlement_type: Minor urban area
Settlement.total_type: District
Settlement.image_skyline: Opotiki Church Street.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Church Street, Ōpōtiki
Settlement.mapframe: yes
Settlement.mapframe zoom: 9
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: New Zealand
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Bay of Plenty
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Territorial authority
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Ōpōtiki District
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Ward
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Ōpōtiki Ward
Settlement.leader_title: Territorial authority
Settlement.leader_name: Ōpōtiki District Council
Settlement.leader_title1: Regional council

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Wikidata facts

Population: 5210
Image: Church St., Opotiki, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, 16 Oct. 2010 - Flickr - PhillipC.jpg

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postal code: 3122
Commons category: Ōpōtiki

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History
Geography
Demographics
Amenities
Marae
Museum
Transport and infrastructure
Education
Notable people
Climate
Notes
References
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==History== The place name, Ōpōtiki-mai-tawhiti, originally belonged to a pond on a hill east of the mouth of the Waiotahe River. It means "the place of Pōtiki from afar" and refers to Pōtiki-mai-tawhiti who is said to have come from Hawaiki to Aotearoa in pre-contact times. but came to be used for the wider region. The name subsequently came to be used for the region as a whole and was applied to the site of the settlement by the first European settlers in 1840.