River
Snowy River
352 km from source to mouth · Australia.
AustraliaFlows into Bass Strait
In numbers
Length
352km
Average flow
67m³/s
Basin
15,779km²
Drop
1,131m
from 1,128 m to -3 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
352 km of river and 12 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,128 m
- 36 kmThredbo Rivertributary
- 43 kmEucumbene Rivertributary
- 49 kmJindabyne6,547 people
- 51 kmLake Jindabyne24 km²
- 53 kmMowamba Rivertributary
- 121 kmMaclaughlin Rivertributary
- 232 kmSuggan Buggan Rivertributary
- 239 kmDeddick Rivertributary
- 300 kmBuchan Rivertributary
- 345 kmLake Curlip1.4 km²
- 347 kmLake Wat Wat0.8 km²
- 347 kmBrodribb Rivertributary
- 352 kmBass Straitat -3 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia
At the mouth it carries 67 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 37 seconds. It drops from 1,128 m to -3 m, 3.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 15,779 km², about the size of TL. 14,000 people live in it. Highest water: from June to August and November. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 260% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- JindabyneLargest city on its banks · 6,547 people
- Cooma Snowy Mountains Airport (OOM)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 34 km from the cityCar hire at MIM airport (Merimbula)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water10 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe39 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From November to MarchThe best months to visit
Snowy River, month by month
Highest water: from June to August and November
Best months to visit: from November to March.
From about 32 m³/s in the lowest month to 95 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
Snowy River: the basin in numbers
15,085 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 14,000people live in the basin
- 1/km²people per km²
- 830maverage altitude of the basin
- 923mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 10.5°Caverage air temperature
- 37%protected areas
- 1.0%covered by lakes
- 5.5km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 69% Forest
- 16% 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
Snowy River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 3WaterfallsCorrowong Falls, Raymond Falls
- 39RapidsCurrawong Falls, Snowy Falls, Earhole Rapid and 36 more
- 8Boat rampsKayak launch, Brodribb Boat Ramp and 6 more
- 1River beachesSandy Beach
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Snowy River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
3lakes on its wayLakeyas
5beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
47mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (3)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lake Jindabynekm 5624km²
- Lake Curlipkm 3771.4km²
- Lake Wat Watkm 3790.8km²
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Beaches (5)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Jacksons Beach8.8 km away19.3°C
- Mots Beach2.6 km away19.3°C
- Ricardo Beach7.8 km away19.3°C
- Salmon Beach17 km away19.3°C
- Ninety Mile Beach17 km away19.1°C
Mountains at the source (47)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mount Kosciuszko2.7 km away · prominence 2,228 m2,228m
- Mount Townsend6.8 km away · prominence 189 m2,209m
- Mount Twynam9.6 km away · prominence 155 m2,195m
- Rams Head1.9 km away2,190m
- Carruthers Peak7.5 km away · prominence 85 m2,145m
- Etheridge Ridge2.1 km away2,180m
- Baldwin's Peak2.1 km away2,180m
- Mount Stilwell5.9 km away
39 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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
Snowy River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (13)
Also: Eucumbene River, Thredbo River, Brodribb River, Deddick River, Delegate River, Rodger River, Gungarlin River, Maclaughlin River, Mowamba River, Jacobs River, Buchan River, Suggan Buggan River, Pinch River
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q498876) · 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, Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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