The Kauru River is a river of North Otago, New Zealand. A tributary of the Kakanui River, it rises in the east of the Kakanui Mountains and flows into that river west of Kia Ora.

• List of rivers of New Zealand

• "Place name detail: Kauru River". New Zealand Gazetteer. Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 12 July 2009.

45°05′S 170°49′E / 45.083°S 170.817°E / -45.083; 170.817