The
Manuherikia River is located in
Otago in the
South Island of
New Zealand. It rises in the far north of the
Maniototo, with the West Branch draining the eastern side of the St Bathans Range, and the East Branch draining the western flanks of the Hawkdun Range. The river continues southwest through the wide Manuherikia Valley to its confluence with the
Clutha River at
Alexandra. During the 1860s the Manuherikia was one of the centres of the
Central Otago Gold Rush.