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The Taieri River is the fourth longest river in New Zealand, and is located in Otago in the country's South Island. Rising in the Lammerlaw ranges, it initially flows north, then east around the Rock and Pillar range before turning southeast, reaching the sea 30 km south of Dunedin.
The upper reaches of the river pass through a broad glacial valley known as the Strath-Taieri, surrounded by rugged hill ranges. Beyond this, it flows through the steep-sided Taieri Gorge. In its lower reaches, there is a broad flood plain (the Taieri Plains) containing much of Otago's most fertile farmland, before it flows through the lower Taieri Gorge to the Pacific Ocean at Taieri Mouth.
The length of the river is 200 km, of which the last 20 km are navigable. Towns along the river include Middlemarch, Outram, Mosgiel, Henley and Taieri Mouth. Its major tributory is the Waipori River, which meets the Taieri near Henley on the Taieri Plains.
The name Taieri is thought to come from the Maori word taiari meaning "spring tide".
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