Otematata

Otematata is a village in the Waitaki District of South Canterbury and 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 Dam then the Aviemore Dam.