Stawell River

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Stawell River
Data
location Queensland ( Australia )
River system Flinders River
Drain over Flinders River  → Gulf of Carpentaria
source south of Blackbraes National Park
19 ° 35 ′ 52 ″  S , 144 ° 9 ′ 46 ″  E
Source height 846  m
muzzle Flinders River northwest of Richmond Coordinates: 20 ° 38 ′ 7 "  S , 142 ° 55 ′ 8"  E 20 ° 38 ′ 7 "  S , 142 ° 55 ′ 8"  E
Mouth height 185  m
Height difference 661 m
Bottom slope 2.3 ‰
length 282.5 km
Left tributaries Sunday Creek, Gum Creek, Running Creek, Scrubby Creek, Four Mile Creek, Station Creek, Cecil Creek
Right tributaries Cambridge Creek, McDougall Creek, Rokehurst Creek, March Creek, Loth Creek, Pelican Creek, Savage Creek, Rocky Creek, Pandanus Creek, Woolgar River
Communities Cheviot Hills, Chudleigh Park, Coalbrook, Burleigh, Cambridge Downs

The Stawell River is a river in the north of the Australian state of Queensland . It does not have water all year round, but only during the rainy season .

geography

River course

The river has its source a few kilometers south of Blackbraes National Park in the Great Dividing Range . It initially flows to the southwest and curves to the south. South of Maiden Springs it turns its course westward through grasslands to the confluence of its largest tributary, the Woolgar River . From there it flows south, where it is about 17 km northwest of Richmond . There it flows into the Flinders River .

Tributaries with mouth heights

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Map of Stawell River, QLD (846 m - 806 m) . Bonzle.com
  2. ↑ a b c Map of Stawell River, QLD (806 m - 185 m) . Bonzle.com
  3. ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 13