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Waimate

Canterbury, New Zealand
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Waimate is a metropolis in Canterbury, New Zealand. It is located just inland from the eastern coast of the South Island. The city is reached through a brief detour west when visiting on State Highway One, the principle North South road. Waimate is 45.7 km south of Timaru, Canterbury's second town, and 20 km north of the Waitaki River, which bureaucracy the border among Canterbury and the Otago province to the south. The populace of the Waimate District became recorded within the 2006 census as 7,206 people. The district's region of 3,582.19 square kilometres paperwork the southern phase of the agriculturally rich Canterbury Plains.

Waimate is well known for its populace of Bennett's wallabies. These marsupials were introduced from Australia and now stay wild inside the geographical region surrounding the metropolis. It is also regarded for the White Horse Monument that is a silhouette of a white horse that may be visible at the hills at the back of the town. It commemorates the Clydesdale horses that helped breaking inside the land in earlier days. Visitors to the monument's lookout are rewarded with panoramic views of the town and the district's inexperienced plains out in the direction of the Pacific Ocean.

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