# Te Wharau Stream, a waterway of Christchurch

A stream, 4.8 km as OpenStreetMap draws it. Also recorded as “Te Wharau”.

## On the register along it

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

- [Millhouse and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/330) · List 4392
- [Former Charteris Bay School and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/331) · List 5276
- [Stables and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/332) · List 5285

## Walks that cross it

- [The quarantine shore](https://www.chch.live/walks/diamond-harbour-quarantine)


## 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.


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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/te-wharau-stream
Every waterway as data: https://www.chch.live/waterways.geojson
The whole roll: https://www.chch.live/river