Omanawa River
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The Omanawa River is a river of the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand
's North Island
. It flows north from the northern edge of the Mamaku Plateau, reaching the Wairoa River
10 kilometres southwest of Tauranga
.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
's North Island
North Island
The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the much less populous South Island by Cook Strait. The island is in area, making it the world's 14th-largest island...
. It flows north from the northern edge of the Mamaku Plateau, reaching the Wairoa River
Wairoa River, Bay of Plenty
The Wairoa River runs north into Tauranga Harbour at the western end of the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North island.-Hydroelectric power:In the mid-1970s the Tauranga Joint Generation Committee proposed a hydroelectric power scheme for the Wairoa River...
10 kilometres southwest of Tauranga
Tauranga
Tauranga is the most populous city in the Bay of Plenty region, in the North Island of New Zealand.It was settled by Europeans in the early 19th century and was constituted as a city in 1963...
.