# Kaituna River, a waterway of Christchurch

A stream, 18.3 km as OpenStreetMap draws it. Also recorded as “Kaituna”.


## Questions, answered briefly

**How long is Kaituna River?**

18.3 km as mapped, 3 ways in the open map.

**What else is Kaituna River called?**

The map also records “Kaituna”, the page answers to all of them.

**Is the line on the map the whole waterway?**

It’s the centreline, the middle of the water as mapped on OpenStreetMap, not its banks. A line says where it runs, not how wide it is or whether it carries water today.


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The line is OpenStreetMap’s, named ways tagged river, stream, drain or canal inside the city boundary, merged by name (ODbL). Centrelines, not banks; the live gauges are instruments, kept at https://www.chch.live/rivers.
The page: https://www.chch.live/river/kaituna-river
Every waterway as data: https://www.chch.live/waterways.geojson
The whole roll: https://www.chch.live/river