Waitaki River
The Waitaki River is a large braided river in the South Island of New Zealand. It drains the Mackenzie Basin and runs 209 kilometres south-east to enter the Pacific Ocean between Timaru and Oamaru on the east coast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glenavy.
Glenavy
Village
Glenavy is a small town in the South Island of New Zealand. It is located at the southern extreme of the Canterbury region on the alluvial fan of the Waitaki River, three kilometres from the river's outflow into the Pacific Ocean. Glenavy is situated 4 km northwest of Waitaki River.
Waitaki River
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in New Zealand
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Waitaki River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Waitaki”
- Catalan: “Waitaki”
- Cebuano: “Waitaki River”
- Chinese: “怀塔基”
- Chuvash: “Уаитаки”
- Dutch: “Waitaki River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر وايتاكى”
- Estonian: “Waitaki jõgi”
- Finnish: “Waitaki River”
- Finnish: “Waitaki”
- French: “Waitaki”
- German: “Waitaki River”
- Italian: “Waitaki”
- Japanese: “ワイタキ川”
- Lithuanian: “Vaitakis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waitaki River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waitaki”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waitakidalen”
- Norwegian: “Waitaki”
- Polish: “Waitaki”
- Russian: “Уаитаки”
- Welsh: “Afon Waitaki”
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Localities in the Area
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