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Te Awa River Ride runs for 65 km (40 mi) [66] following the river from Horahora, near the end of the Waikato River Trails, via Cambridge and Hamilton to Ngāruawāhia. Completion was planned for 2017, [ 67 ] but the Cambridge-Hamilton section opening was further delayed from 2021 [ 68 ] and opened on 9 December 2022. [ 66 ]
In this clearer part of the river there can be very good fly fishing for trout but access to the river may be limited without landowner permission. The Waipā is prone to flooding in its lower reaches as flood flows can be over 100 times—20 to 560 m 3 /s (710 to 19,780 cu ft/s)—those of dry flows and the river can rise up to 11 m (36 ft).
Earlier, in 1894, Parliament had been asked to "have obstructions in the shape of eel weirs removed from the navigable creeks flowing from Whangape Lake into the Waikato River, so as to enable steamers now running on the Waikato River to carry goods for settlers in that district." [30] In 1889 the weir had been partly removed to allow a boat to ...
At 425 km, the Waikato River is New Zealand's longest river. The Waikato River has spiritual meaning for various local Māori tribes including the large Tainui, who regard it as a source of their mana or pride. There are several hydro lakes along this stretch of the Waikato River: Lake Ātiamuri was formed behind the Ātiamuri Power Station.
Te Ara Pekapeka Bridge (Māori for pathway of the bat) is a girder bridge over the Waikato River in Hamilton, New Zealand, opened to pedestrians and cyclists on 30 August 2024 and known as Peacocke Bridge during construction. [1] The bridge on Wairere Drive is part of the Southern Links, a ring road around Hamilton.
The southernmost and largest Waipapa River is a river of the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island.It flows generally northeast from its origins to the south of the Pureora Forest Park, passing through the southeast corner of the park to reach Lake Waipapa on the Waikato River 10 kilometres northwest of Mangakino.
The sediment from the 26.5 ka Oruanui eruption of Lake Taupō caused the river to change direction, and come out to the west. [3] In fact, the Waikato River changes its route quite regularly, as eruptions occur in the Taupō Volcanic Zone, and the river channel becomes blocked. Many lakes and swamps in the Waikato Basin represent old routes.
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