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The longest river in New Zealand is the Waikato River with a length of 425 kilometres (264 miles). The largest river by rate of flow is the Clutha River / Mata-Au with a mean discharge of 613 cubic metres per second (21,600 cu ft/s). [1] The shortest river is claimed to be the Tūranganui River in Gisborne at 1,200 metres (3,900 feet) long. [2]
The river was first known by its Māori name of Te Awa Whakatipu, with te awa literally translating as 'the river'. [7] The name Whakatipu is shared with several nearby geographic features, including Lake Wakatipu [a] and Whakatipu Kā Tuka (the Hollyford River) though this name is an archaic term and its original meaning is no longer known. [8]
The Maori River is a river of the West Coast Region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows from several sources in the Mataketake Range east of Haast , passing through the small Tawharekiri Lakes before becoming a tributary of the Waita River , which flows into the Tasman Sea 15 kilometres north of Haast.
The Clarence River (Māori: Waiau Toa; officially Waiau Toa / Clarence River) is a major river which flows through the Kaikōura Ranges in the northeast of New Zealand's South Island. At roughly 209 kilometres (130 mi) long, it is the longest river in Canterbury and the eighth longest in New Zealand.
The Tutaekuri River (Māori: Tūtaekurī) flows eastward for 99.9 kilometres through the Hawke's Bay Region of the eastern North Island of New Zealand into the Pacific Ocean. It starts in the Kaweka Range roughly 50 kilometres north-east of Taihape , and reaches the sea just to the south of Napier , where the Ngaruroro and Clive Rivers join it.
The Wairoa River carries large quantities of fine sediment (clays, silts and sands) that cloaks both the bed and the banks of the river. The rate of sediment loss has increased because of changes in land use from native forest to pasture, and forestry and farming land use practices, with current sediment losses estimated to be approximately 240% higher than before human arrival.
It is an important place to Māori for the resource of pounamu (greenstone), only found in a few places in the South Island of New Zealand. When the region was sold to the British Crown in 1860 by the chiefs of Poutini Ngāi Tahu the rights to pounamu on the Arahura River were meant to be retained, these rights were ignored in the deed (Arahura ...
The Big River has also been known by several other names, Windsor River [1] and Māori names Hakapoua, [2] Okopowa, [3] Patu-po, [4] or Patupō, [5] though that last name, meaning kill by night, [1] might refer to a place near Long Point and Waitutu. [6] It is a river of southern Fiordland, New Zealand, and is one of three rivers of that name ...
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