Ashburton River / Hakatere
The 883rd longest river in the world
The Ashburton River / Hakatere is a river in the Canterbury region of New Zealand, flowing across Mid Canterbury from the Southern Alps to the Pacific Ocean. The official name of the river was amended to become a dual name by the Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998. It has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it supports breeding colonies of the endangered black-billed gull. The river is a medium-sized gravel-bed braided river whose catchment includes the Ashburton Lakes / Ō Tū Wharekai wetland complex and supports a high diversity of native fish and birds, several of them threatened.
Flows through: New Zealand.
River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.