The Tengawai River (also ''Te Ana a Wai'') flows through south
Canterbury
Canterbury (, ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated in the heart of the City of Canterbury local government district of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour, Kent, River Stour.
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, in
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
's
South Island
The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman ...
. It flows east for before joining the
Opihi River Opihi may refer to:
* ''Cellana'', sea snails known as ''‘opihi'' in Hawaiian.
* Opihi, New Zealand
* Opihi River, Canterbury, New Zealand
* Opihi Whanaungakore, a Māori burial ground near Whakatāne
Whakatāne ( , ) is the seat of the Bay ...
at
Pleasant Point, New Zealand
Pleasant Point is a small country town in southern Canterbury, New Zealand, some 19 km inland from Timaru, on State Highway 8. It is a service town for the surrounding farming district. One of its main attractions is the heritage railway, t ...
, north west of
Timaru
Timaru (; mi, Te Tihi-o-Maru) is a port city in the southern Canterbury Region of New Zealand, located southwest of Christchurch and about northeast of Dunedin on the eastern Pacific coast of the South Island. The Timaru urban area is home to ...
.
Rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand
Rivers of New Zealand
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