| Hurunui River | |
|---|---|
 A mountainbiker crossing the Hurunui River upstream of Lake Sumner | |
.png)  Location of the mouth within New Zealand | |
| Location | |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Southern Alps |
| Mouth | |
• location | Pacific Ocean |
• elevation | sea level |
| Length | 150 km (93 mi)[1] |
| Basin size | 2,671 km2 (1,031 sq mi)[1] |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 53 m3/s (1,900 cu ft/s)[2] |
| • minimum | 16.8 m3/s (590 cu ft/s)[2] |
The Hurunui River is the fourth largest of the four principal rivers in north Canterbury, New Zealand, with a catchment area of 2,670 square kilometres (1,030 sq mi).[3] The river flows from the eastern side of the Southern Alps, to the Pacific Ocean.
- ^ a b "Hurunui River Catchment". Land Air Water Aotearoa.
- ^ a b "Canterbury Water Management Strategy", Environment Canterbury, 6 December 2010, archived from the original (PDF) on 23 January 2019, retrieved 18 April 2019
- ^ Robert Logan, Waimakariri. The story of Canterbury's "river of cold rushing water". ISBN 0-473-00520-4, Robert Logan, Christchurch, 1987, page 6.