Waimangaroa River

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The Waimangaroa River is a river in the Buller District in the West Coast region of New Zealand 's South Island.

It rises in the so-called Happy Valley east of the extensive areas of daily construction area of Stockton mine coal mine and one kilometer south of the river system does not belong to the north draining the reservoir. The headwaters in Happy Valley is also called Cypress stream. It first flows in a southerly direction through the hilly landscape of the Mount William Range.

Here he takes on several tributaries, including the Whirlwind Stream, Herbert Stream, Stream Webb, Ernest Stream, Stream L75, Wilson Creek and Cedar Creek. In an abandoned mine near the Cedar Creek Saddle it changes its course to the northwest and flows north past the mining settlements Burnett's Face and Denniston. Tributaries in this area are Deep Stream, Gomorrah Creek, Hat Stream, Stream Burnett and Conns Creek.

In the lower reaches of the River Waimangaroa is bridged at the village Waimangaroa of State Highway 67 and the rail freight route Stillwater - Westport Line, still takes the Kiwi Creek, and empties into the Tasman Sea shortly afterwards.