The Wainui River is a river of the
Bay of Plenty Region
The Bay of Plenty ( mi, Te Moana-a-Toi) is a region of New Zealand, situated around a bight of the same name in the northern coast of the North Island. The bight stretches 260 km from the Coromandel Peninsula in the west to Cape Runaway ...
of
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
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 north from the
Kaimai Range to reach
Tauranga Harbour
Tauranga Harbour is the natural tidal harbour that surrounds Tauranga CBD and the Mount Maunganui area of Tauranga, New Zealand, and which flows into the Pacific Ocean at Mount Maunganui. The harbour is effectively two flooded river systems separ ...
south of
Katikati. The catchment has of stream margins. 41% of the catchment remains covered in native bush, but 48% is under pasture and suffers soil erosion.
The river includes 3 waterfalls of up to , which have been
kayaked.
The long former
East Coast Main Trunk
The East Coast Main Trunk (ECMT) is a railway line in the North Island of New Zealand, originally running between Hamilton and Taneatua via Tauranga, connecting the Waikato with the Bay of Plenty. The ECMT now runs between Hamilton and Kawerau ...
railway bridge is designated as the limit of the
Coastal Marine Area. Downstream, a 3-span bridge takes
SH2 over the river.
See also
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List of rivers of New Zealand
References
External links
Photo of train on Wainui viaduct
Rivers of the Bay of Plenty Region
Rivers of New Zealand
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