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Ōkuti River

A river of the city, 8.6 km as the open map draws it, crossing 1 suburb. Also recorded as “Ōkuti”.

As the line runs
8.6 km
Suburbs crossed
1

Where it runs

The centre of the water as OpenStreetMap draws it, centrelines, not banks, and not every reach carries water year-round. The faint outlines are suburbs.

The suburbs on its banks

Little River

The reports along it

75 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Roads & footpaths and Trees & parks, 58 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Fallen Tree 342–388 Okuti Valley Rd, Canterbury, Little River 7591 · 9 July 2026
Roads - General 185–191 Okuti Valley Rd, Canterbury, Little River 7591 · 1 June 2026
Trees - General 119–155 Okuti Valley Rd, Canterbury, Little River 7591 · 27 March 2026
Flooding 262–264 Okuti Valley Rd, Canterbury, Little River 7591 · 19 March 2026

Questions, answered briefly

How long is Ōkuti River?

8.6 km as mapped, 2 ways in the open map, crossing 1 suburb.

Which suburbs does Ōkuti River pass through?

Little River.

What else is Ōkuti River called?

The map also records “Ōkuti”, 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.

The record behind this

The line is OpenStreetMap’s, every named way tagged river, stream, drain or canal inside the city boundary, merged by name (ODbL). A line says where a waterway runs, not how wide it is; the live gauges are instruments, kept on /rivers.

This page as markdown: /river/okuti-river.md · every waterway as data: /waterways.geojson · /waterways.json · every roll, counted: /geography.