An Entity of Type: societal event, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The Hororata Highland Games is an annual event held in Hororata, New Zealand. The Games began in 2011, following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake. The Hororata community had a desire to make a positive change following the damage of the Canterbury earthquakes. The annual event has increased in popularity with 10,000 people coming to the 2016 edition. It has since become New Zealand's biggest Scottish festival.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The Hororata Highland Games is an annual event held in Hororata, New Zealand. The Games began in 2011, following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake. The Hororata community had a desire to make a positive change following the damage of the Canterbury earthquakes. The annual event has increased in popularity with 10,000 people coming to the 2016 edition. It has since become New Zealand's biggest Scottish festival. In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic closed New Zealand's borders. This left overseas tourists unable to attend the Games. Despite this, 8,500 people showed up to its tenth event. However, the 2021 event was cancelled. In 2022, the event was held again, with 10,000 people attending the eleventh games and six hundred competitors taking part in traditional Scottish Sports. (en)
dbo:endDate
  • 2022-11-05 (xsd:date)
dbo:location
dbo:startDate
  • 2011-11-05 (xsd:date)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 65853231 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 7236 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1120861600 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:attendance
  • 10000 (xsd:integer)
dbp:caption
  • Pipe Bands at the opening of the 2020 Hororata Highland Games (en)
dbp:country
dbp:first
  • 2011-11-05 (xsd:date)
dbp:last
  • 2022-11-05 (xsd:date)
dbp:location
dbp:name
  • Hororata Highland Games (en)
dbp:status
  • Active (en)
dbp:website
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dct:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The Hororata Highland Games is an annual event held in Hororata, New Zealand. The Games began in 2011, following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake. The Hororata community had a desire to make a positive change following the damage of the Canterbury earthquakes. The annual event has increased in popularity with 10,000 people coming to the 2016 edition. It has since become New Zealand's biggest Scottish festival. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Hororata Highland Games (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:homepage
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Hororata Highland Games (en)
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License