Otematata

Otematata is a village in the Waitaki District of North Otago in New Zealand's South Island. It is defined as a "populated area less than a town" and the 2001 New Zealand Census of Population and Dwellings gave the "usually resident population count" as 243. By the 2006 census it had declined to 189 inhabitants. This was considerably higher in the 1960s during the construction of the Benmore and Aviemore dams.