The Utakura River is a river of the
Northland Region of
New Zealand's
North Island
The North Island, also officially named Te Ika-a-Māui, is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but much less populous South Island by the Cook Strait. The island's area is , making it the world's 14th-largest ...
. It flows west from its sources northwest of
Kaikohe, reaching the
Waihou River at the point where it widens to become an arm of the
Hokianga Harbour.
Long
Long may refer to:
Measurement
* Long, characteristic of something of great duration
* Long, characteristic of something of great length
* Longitude (abbreviation: long.), a geographic coordinate
* Longa (music), note value in early music mensur ...
and
short-fin eels,
smelt
Smelt may refer to:
* Smelting, chemical process
* The common name of various fish:
** Smelt (fish), a family of small fish, Osmeridae
** Australian smelt in the family Retropinnidae and species ''Retropinna semoni''
** Big-scale sand smelt ''At ...
,
īnanga
The common galaxias (''Galaxias maculatus'') or inanga (from the Māori ''īnanga'') is a very widespread Southern Hemisphere fish in the family Galaxiidae. It is a slim, narrow fish with a forked tail and a mottled, spotty pattern, typically ...
,
torrentfish and
redfin bully live in the river. The river is assessed as fair, in a scale between good and poor, as it suffers from
turbidity and
e-coli and
phosphorus pollution.
See also
*
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
External links
*
Far North District
Rivers of the Northland Region
Rivers of New Zealand
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