Te Wāhi Pounamu region had around 5% of the Māori population when Europeans arrived. Horticulture was all but impossible in this region, which explains why so few people lived there. Those who did relied on a hunter-gatherer economy.
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Source: Janet Davidson, The prehistory of New Zealand. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1987, p. 34
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