The Belyando River, including the Belyando River (Western Branch), is a
river
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system located in
Central Queensland
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, Australia. At in length and with a
catchment area
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of , the Belyando River system is one of the longest rivers in Queensland.
It is pronounced Bel-yando.
Course and features
Comprising a mix of
anabranches from source to
mouth, the Belyando River and the Belyando River (Western Branch) rise below Mount Narounyah in the Drummond Range, part of the
Great Dividing Range in the area southeast of . The river flows generally in a northerly direction, joined by twenty-nine
tributaries
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including the Carmichael River. The Belyando River flows through a series of
waterholes and
lagoon
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s including Grays Lagoon, Bakoolama Waterhole, Ten Mile Waterhole, Boadles Waterhole, Georges Waterhole, Broadna Waterhole, Alinya Waterhole, Sandy Camp Waterhole, Bygana Waterhole, Dunjarrobina Waterhole and Yarmina Waterhole. The river reaches its
confluence with the
Suttor River
The Suttor River is a river in Central Queensland, Australia. The Belyando River is its main tributary. The river has its origins in the Leichhardt Range, north west of Glenden. It flows into Lake Dalrymple, becoming a tributary of the Burdek ...
before flowing into
Lake Dalrymple and joining the
Burdekin River
The Burdekin River is a river located in North and Far North Queensland, Australia. The river rises on the northern slopes of Boulder Mountain at Valley of Lagoons, part of the western slope of the Seaview Range, and flows into the Coral Sea a ...
.
The river system descends from a peak elevation of over its combined
course.
[
The river system has a catchment area of a little more than .] Land use in the catchment is dominated by grazing with some cropping. Some of the catchment is included in the Narrien Range National Park
Narrien Range is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 796 km northwest of Brisbane.
See also
* Protected areas of Queensland
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and the Epping Forest National Park
Epping Forest is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 855 km northwest of Brisbane. The park is a scientific national park so it is not open to the public. Only scientists, rangers and volunteers may visit the park. The park lies with ...
.
History
The traditional custodians of the land surrounding the Belyando River are the various indigenous
Indigenous may refer to:
*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention
*Indigenous (band), an American blues-rock band
*Indigenous (horse), a Hong Kong racehorse ...
Wakelbura people, including the various smaller Auanbura, Dorobura, and Metherabura clans.
'' Miyan'' (slso known as ''Mian'') is a language of North
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Etymology
The word ''north ...
/ Central Queensland.The Miyan language region includes the landscape within the local government area of the Central Highlands Region, including the localities of Mount Douglas, Bulliwallah and Lake Galilee
The Sea of Galilee ( he, יָם כִּנֶּרֶת, Judeo-Aramaic: יַמּא דטבריא, גִּנֵּיסַר, ar, بحيرة طبريا), also called Lake Tiberias, Kinneret or Kinnereth, is a freshwater lake in Israel. It is the lowest ...
.
'' Yagalingu'' (also known as ''Jagalingu'', ''Auanbura'', ''Kokleburra'', ''Owanburra'', ''Kowanburra'', ''Wagalbara'', and ''Djagalingu'') is an Australian Aboriginal language of Central Queensland
Central Queensland is an ambiguous geographical division of Queensland ( a state in Australia) that centres on the eastern coast, around the Tropic of Capricorn. Its major regional centre is Rockhampton. The region extends from the Capricorn Coas ...
. Its traditional language region was within the local government area of Isaac Region
The Isaac Region is a local government area located in Central Queensland, Queensland, Australia created in March 2008 as a result of the report of the Local Government Reform Commission released in July 2007.
History
Yagalingu is an Austra ...
, from the headwaters of the Belyando River south to Avoca, north to Laglan, west to the Great Dividing Range, and east and south to Drummond Range
Drummond may refer to:
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* Drummond Peak, King Edward VII Land
* Drummond Glacier, Graham Land
Canada
* Drummond (electoral district), a Quebec federal riding
* Drummond (provincial electoral district), Quebec
* Drummond ...
.
The first European to discover the river was explorer Thomas Mitchell in 1846 on his fourth and last expedition.
The 2010–11 Queensland floods
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caused widespread flooding along the river and the extended isolation of properties from inundation which needed food supply drops.
In 2015 the Adani Group
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applied for a water licence to extract up to per year from the Belyando River for use at the Carmichael coal mine
The Carmichael coal mine is a coal mine in Queensland, Australia which produced its first shipment of coal in December 2021.
The mine has drawn criticism for its environmental impacts on the Great Barrier Reef, water usage and carbon emissions ...
.
See also
*List of rivers of Queensland
This is a list of rivers of Australia. Rivers are ordered alphabetically, by state. The same river may be found in more than one state as many rivers cross state borders.
Longest rivers nationally
Longest river by state or territory
Althoug ...
References
External links
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{{Rivers of Queensland
Rivers of Queensland
Floods in Queensland
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