Houhora is a locality and harbour on the east side of the Aupouri Peninsula of Northland, New Zealand.

Waihopo, Te Raupo, Pukenui, Raio and Houhora Heads are associated localities on the southern shores of the harbour.

[3][4] The harbour is long and narrow, mostly sheltered, with exposed sand banks at low tide.

Tohoraha / Mount Camel (also called Mt Houhora) is a 236-metre hill forming the north head.

[5] Houhora Mountain was the first part of New Zealand that the early explorer Kupe saw, but he thought it was a whale, according to Māori legend.

[8] James Cook named Mt Camel, on the north head of Houhora Harbour, on 10 December 1769.

[10] In the 19th century, Houhora Harbour provisioned whalers, and residents mounted their own whaling expeditions in open boats.

[14] A lifeboat from SS Elingamite, which was wrecked on the Three Kings Islands on 9 November 1902, arrived in Houhora the following day with 52 survivors.

The results were 57.0% European (Pākehā); 53.2% Māori, 6.3% Pasifika, 1.3% Asian, and 6.3% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander".