Te Anga is a rural community in the
Waitomo District and
Waikato region of New Zealand's
North Island
The North Island, also officially named Te Ika-a-Māui, is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but much less populous South Island by the Cook Strait. The island's area is , making it the world's 14th-largest ...
.
Marokopa River
The Marokopa River is a river of the Waikato Region of New Zealand. It flows west to join the Tasman Sea at Marokopa. The main part of the river is long, with about of tributaries. The catchment is some .
Near Te Anga, the river flows over the ...
runs through the area. The river is not safe to swim in due to high rates of
E. coli
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,
but farmers have put in plans to reduce water pollution.
The area transitioned from sheep farming to more intensive dairy farming at the turn of the century.
The local landscape consists of
limestones,
calcareous mudstones and
sandstones
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks.
Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) b ...
, with small areas of
basal conglomerates
Conglomerate () is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts. A conglomerate typically contains a matrix of finer-grained sediments, such as sand, silt, or clay, which fills ...
and
coal measures
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.
Te Anga is in meshblocks 1018799, 1019601 and 4002699, which had a population of 129 people in the 2018 census.
Marokopa Falls
The Marokopa River is a river of the Waikato Region of New Zealand. It flows west to join the Tasman Sea at Marokopa. The main part of the river is long, with about of tributaries. The catchment is some .
Near Te Anga, the river flows over the ...
and
Mangapohue Natural Bridge
The Mangapohue Natural Bridge consists of two rock arches formed by the Mangapohue Stream in the Marokopa River valley near Waitomo, New Zealand.
The 17 m high limestone arches are a remnant of an ancient cave system. The smaller lower rock ar ...
are close to Te Anga.
Education
Piri Piri School is a co-educational state primary school,
with a roll of as of
References
Waitomo District
Populated places in Waikato
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