River
Diamantina River
941 km from source to mouth · Australia.
AustraliaFlows into Warburton River9th longest in Australia
In numbers
Length
941km
Average flow
170m³/s
Basin
157,455km²
Drop
240m
from 265 m to 25 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
941 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 265 m
- 188 kmWestern Rivertributary
- 378 kmMayne Rivertributary
- 837 kmLake Uloowaranie60 km²
- 941 kmWarburton Riverat 25 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Australia
At the mouth it carries 173 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 14 seconds. It drops from 265 m to 25 m, 0.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 157,455 km², about the size of SR. 1,677 people live in it. Highest water: from February to April; lowest: from September to December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Birdsville Airport (BVI)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 92 km from the cityCar hire in Coober PedyDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to AugustThe best months to visit
Diamantina River, month by month
Highest water: from February to April
Lowest water: from September to December. Best months to visit: from April to August.
From about 19 m³/s in the lowest month to 510 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Diamantina River: the basin in numbers
113,673 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1,677people live in the basin
- 0/km²people per km²
- 159maverage altitude of the basin
- 289mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 23.6°Caverage air temperature
- 7%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 63% Pasture
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Diamantina River: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Diamantina River in our other atlases
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1lake on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lake Uloowaraniekm 82460km²
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From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Diamantina River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (2)
Also: Mayne River, Western River
In the same basin
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1208608) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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