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Hinatua River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Hinatua River is a small river in the Westland District of New Zealand's South Island. Its headwaters are on Mount Hercules, near State Highway 6 as it runs between Harihari and Te Taho. The Hinatua River then flows in a general northerly direction, passing just to the east of the Saltwater Lagoon before flowing close to the Tasman Sea coastline before joining the Poerua River at its rivermouth.

Flows through: New Zealand.

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

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