Recognised iwi in the Māori Fisheries Act 2004

Population: Census 2013: 16,182

This rohe map represents the area over which Ngāti Awa exercises kaitiakitanga for the purposes of the Resource Management Act 1991 and is based on the Area of Interest agreed between Ngāti Awa and the Crown in the Deed of Settlement initialled on 8 July 2002. Ngāti Awa Area of Interest from the Deed of Settlement [JPG, 157KB].

Ngāti Awa claims that prior to 1866 they asserted te tino rangatiratanga from time to time over their rohe including the islands of Motītī, the Rurima group, Moutohorā (Whale Island), Te Paepae o Aotea (Volkner Rocks), Whakaari (White Island), Ohakana and Uretara (both the latter two islands being situated in Ōhiwa Harbour) and the seas from Waihī Estuary near Maketū to Ōhiwa Harbour including the seabed and the foreshore; the land, forests, lakes, rivers, riverbeds and swamps bounded to the north by the coastline from Waihī Estuary to Ōhiwa, to the west from the Waihī Estuary along the Pongakawa River to Lake Rotoehu including the lake itself and the Rotoehu Forest from Lake Rotoehu to the Te Haehaenga, Pokohu and Matahina lands including Lake Rotomā to the south beyond the Waikowhewhe River towards Rangitāiki, across the Rangitāiki River to include the Tuararangaia lands and on the east along the Whakatāne River to Tāneatua across to the Nukuhou River and from there along the Nukuhou River to Ōhiwa Harbour.

This rohe extends into the regions or districts of these local authorities:

Regional Council

Bay of Plenty Regional Council / Toi Moana

Territorial Authority

Kawerau District Council

Whakatāne District Council

Contact information for hapū and marae may be provided by the Representative Organisation at their discretion.

Iwi Representative Organisations