Question: The Awatere River is a large river flowing through Marlborough New Zealand. Flowing along the trace of the active Awatere Fault it runs northeast through a straight valley to the west of the Inland Kaikoura mountains. This valley is parallel with that of the Clarence River 20 kilometres to the south.It flows for 110 kilometres from its source in the mountainous interior to reach Cook Strait close to the town of Seddon.Until 2008 the Awatere River bridge had a rail line above the road way. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Natural Place