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Te Wharau Stream

A stream of the city, 4.8 km as the open map draws it. Also recorded as “Te Wharau”.

As the line runs
4.8 km
Suburbs crossed
0
Register places near it
3

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.

On the register along it

Listed places within about 200m of the line, near the water, not necessarily of it.

Walks that cross it

The quarantine shore

Questions, answered briefly

How long is Te Wharau Stream?

4.8 km as mapped, 1 way in the open map.

What else is Te Wharau Stream called?

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

What’s on the record along Te Wharau Stream?

3 register places sit within 200m of its line, each opens its own record from this page.

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/te-wharau-stream.md · every waterway as data: /waterways.geojson · /waterways.json · every roll, counted: /geography.