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Motueka

Motueka is a town in the Nelson Bays region of New Zealand's South Island that lies close to the Motueka River. Nearby beaches are very popular with holidaymakers, and the area around Motueka has one of the country's highest annual sunshine-hour indices. Wikivoyage

Population 8,420 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in New Zealand

Visas and entry What your passport needs for New Zealand

Getting there

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Still gathering the markets around Motueka. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Somewhere to run

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