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Hororata River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Hororata River is a river of Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand. A tributary of the Selwyn River, the Hororata has its sources in rough hill country north of Windwhistle, and flows east through the township of Hororata before reaching the Selwyn 12 kilometres (7 mi) northwest of Dunsandel.

Flows through: New Zealand.

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

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