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Avon River / Ōtākaro

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Avon River / Ōtākaro (AY-vən, Māori: [ˈɔːtaːkaɾɔ]), sometimes rendered as the River Avon, flows through the centre of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, and into the Pacific Ocean via the Avon Heathcote Estuary / Ihutai, which it shares with the Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River.

Flows through: New Zealand.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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