Porirua Harbour

The Porirua Harbour is a natural harbor on the southwest coast of the North Island of New Zealand. The city of Porirua, one of four cities in the metropolitan Wellington, located on its bank. The city center is located just south of the natural harbor.

The port has an outbound from the Karehana Bay, a few hundred meters wide driveway near the suburb of Plimmerton. He then opens up into two approximately 3 km long arms, the Porirua Inlet in the south and the Pauatahanui Inlet to the northeast.

West of the inner harbor entrance there is a marina.

The wetland at Pauatahanui, where the Pauatahanui Inlet Pauatahanui Stream in the leads, is the largest remaining wetland in an estuary of the southern North Island. The Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve was established to protect it.

A part of the Porirua Inlet was filled for the dam of the North Iceland Main Trunk Railway partially. It emerged three flat lagoons, which were largely filled in the 1970s, when the State Highway 1 was given its present routing parallel to the railway line. The Aotea Lagoon became a recreation area.