Paraparaumu

Situated in the Kapiti Coast, the land of Paraparaumu is a small town in New Zealand, around forty nine kilometers to the south west region of the North Island and also to north of Wellington, the country’s capital city. It is typically pronounced as “Para-pa-raow-moo”.

The literal meaning of the city is “scraps from an earthen stove” in the Maori language. Ethnic Europeans commonly cut the name short to Para-Param and the youth simply call it Pram.

This town also has an associate settlement called the Paraparaumu beach like all other hamlets in the vicinity. This beach is bang opposite to the Kapiti Island. The town of Paraparaumu and the Kapiti, together with the neighboring regions of the Raumati South and the Raumati beach form the fastest growing towns in New Zealand. They also serve as major dormitory places for labors traveling to bigger cities making up the urban Wellington city. They boast of having a population of more that 24,000 people. Paraparaumu also encloses the Maungakotukutuku area within it.

It originally represented the soccer sport under the flagship name of Paraparaumu United. Later it converged with the Kapiti Hearts in the year 2003. This gave birth to a new team called Kapiti Coast United, which is located in Raumati in the Weka Park precisely.

Paraparaumu has the largest secondary school. It also home to the Paraparaumu College along with the college of Kapiti in the adjoining beach of Raumati. It additionally includes the Otaki College in the city of Otaki.

The town of Paraparaumu has always been a delight for visitors owing to its attractiveness as it rests itself against a mountain range and based on a reliable river, completely protected from the stormy and violent western region.

Until the European whalers arrived in Paraparaumu in the year 1863, and commenced trading on these grounds, this land was always swampy and full of sand dunes. It was then that the Europeans started using the beaches as roads to transport goods from Wellington to Foxton.

Urbanization greatly and rapidly spread inwards with the completion of the Wellington –Manawatu railways in the year 1886.

Before Paraparaumu got the Borough Status in the year 1989, it was a part of the Hutt County Council’s umbrella called the Kapiti Riding. This change happened when the local government district of Kapiti was formed.

From then on, rapid urban growth kicked off and it boasts of being the second largest growing urban land. Prior to that, Paraparaumu was popular among the Wellingtonians as a peaceful seaside resort and nice holiday homes.

This city is well known for a variety of factors including but not restricting to its beaches, its cheeses, the ice cream houses, the shopping streets, its car museum, the butterfly house, and an international level golf course.