Waihou/Thames River
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The Waihou River - still frequently referred to by its former name of Thames River - is located in the northern North Island of New Zealand.
The river flows north for 150 kilometres from the Mamaku Ranges past the towns of Putaruru, Te Aroha, and Paeroa, before reaching the Firth of Thames at the south end of the Hauraki Gulf near the town of Thames. In its lower reaches, the river and the nearby Piako River form the wide alluvial Hauraki Plains.
Just before the river reaches the ocean, State Highway 25 travels over the river on the Kopu Bridge, the longest one-lane bridge in the country at 463m, the only swing bridge left in New Zealand and is famous for the queues and queues of people traveling to and from the Coromandel Peninsula.
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