カンタベリー平原を流れる大河、ワイマカリリ川。
サザンアルプス、アーサーズパス国立公園の山々の頂を源流とし、南東の方角へ約150Kmにわたり蛇行しながら流れ、クライストチャーチの北、約20kmにあるカイアポイの町の近くで、太平洋へと注いでいる。
“ワイマカリリ”は、「奔流する冷たい川」を意味するマオリ語だ。
The Waimakariri River is a river in Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand.
The river rises on the eastern flanks of the Southern Alps, eight kilometres southwest of Arthur's Pass.
It flows for 150 kilometers in a generally southeastward direction from the Southern Alps across the Canterbury Plains.
It finally enters the Pacific north of Christchurch, near the town of Kaiapoi.
In Māori, Waimakariri has several meanings, one of which is “river of cold rushing water”