Tekapo River

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Template: Infobox River / Obsolete

The Tekapo River is a today only temporarily water-bearing river in the Mackenzie Basin in Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand. The river bed runs from the south end of Lake Tekapo for about 50 km to the southwest, and then to unite Benmore with the Pukaki River just before the north end of the Lake. At the outflow of Lake Tekapo is the only village on the river, Lake Tekapo.

Today, the river water is diverted after a few kilometers and diverted through a channel in the Lake Pukaki, which is part of the hydroelectric project on the Waitaki River. The lakes are used for water storage for hydroelectric power plants, only in case of heavy snow melt or maintenance of the channel or the hydroelectric water gets into the former river bed.

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• " New Zealand Travel Atlas " Wise Maps Auckland. ISBN 0-908794-47-9

• River system Waitaki River
• River in Australia and Oceania
• River in New Zealand
• Canterbury ( region )