Amuri County, Former county in Canterbury region, New Zealand

Amuri County was a historical administrative territory in northern Canterbury encompassing settlements like Hanmer Springs and Waiau. The area stretched across flat to rolling land shaped by the Amuri Plain.

The area was administered as part of Nelson Province from 1853 until the Abolition of Provinces Act 1876 created Amuri County, which took over its area in January 1877. The council was based in Culverden from 1890 to 1989. That year the county merged with Cheviot County and the part of Kaikoura County south of the Hundalee Hills to form Hurunui District; last chairman John Chaffey became its first mayor.

The name Amuri comes from the Amuri Plain that surrounds Culverden, shaping the identity of this area. Today visitors can still see this landscape and understand how important this flat region was for the settlements here.

Amuri County stretched from the Amuri Plain around Culverden north to Hanmer Springs and Waiau, with Culverden holding the council headquarters from 1890 to 1989. The former county's area now forms the northern part of Hurunui District, alongside the old Cheviot County and the Kaikoura County land south of the Hundalee Hills.

The county took its name from the Amuri Plain around Culverden, yet no settlement is called Amuri. The name survives in the Amuri Community Arts Council, Amuri Area School in Culverden and the Amuri ski field near Hanmer Springs. Amuri (Haumuri) Bluff rises on the Pacific coast near Oaro.