Orira River
The Orira River is a river of the Northland Region of New Zealand's North Island. It flows southwest, and for much of its length it is a northwestern arm of the Hokianga Harbour.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mangungu Mission House and Māngungu Mission.
Māngungu Mission
Museum
Māngungu Mission was the second mission station established in New Zealand by the Wesleyan Missionary Society. Located near Horeke, in the Hokianga Harbour, it was founded in 1828 by the missionaries John Hobbs and James Stack after the first WMS mission station in the country had been sacked the previous year.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Horeke and Kohukohu.
Horeke
Horeke is a small isolated town on the shores of the Hokianga Harbour, in the North Island of New Zealand.Kohukohu
Photo: Poliocretes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kohukohu is a village on the Hokianga Harbour in the Northland Region of New Zealand. It was one of the first European settlements in New Zealand. Kohukohu is situated on the northern shore of the harbour where it splits into two rivers, the Mangamuka River branching inland to the northeast and the Waihou River leading towards the east past Mangungu, Horeke and Rangiahua.
Umawera
Hamlet
Umawera is a community in Northland, New Zealand. State Highway 1 runs through the community. Mangamuka Bridge is to the northwest, and Rangiahua is to the east. Umawera is situated 6 km north of Orira River.
Orira River
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in New Zealand
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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Satellite Map
Discover Orira River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Orira River” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Orira River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر اورا”
- French: “Orira”
- Hausa: “Kogin Orira”
- Welsh: “Afon Orira”
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