# Belyando River

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The **Belyando River**, including the **Belyando River (Western Branch)**, is a [river](/source/River) system in [Central Queensland](/source/Central_Queensland), Australia. At 1,054 kilometres (655 mi) in length and with a [catchment area](/source/Drainage_basin) of 35,000 square kilometres (14,000 sq mi), the Belyando River system is one of the longest rivers in Queensland.

It is pronounced Bel-yando.[4]

## Course and features

Comprising a mix of [anabranches](/source/Anabranch) from source to [mouth](/source/River_mouth), the Belyando River and the Belyando River (Western Branch) rise below Mount Narounyah in the Drummond Range, part of the [Great Dividing Range](/source/Great_Dividing_Range) in the area southeast of . The river flows generally in a northerly direction, joined by twenty-nine [tributaries](/source/Tributary) including the Carmichael River. The Belyando River flows through a series of [waterholes](/source/Depression_(geology)) and [lagoons](/source/Lagoon) 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](/source/Confluence) with the [Suttor River](/source/Suttor_River) before flowing into [Lake Dalrymple](/source/Burdekin_Dam) and joining the [Burdekin River](/source/Burdekin_River).[5] The river system descends from a peak elevation of 447 metres (1,467 ft) over its combined 1,054-kilometre (655-mile) [course](/source/Watercourse).[1][2][3]

The river system has a catchment area of a little more than 35,000 square kilometres (14,000 sq mi).[6] Land use in the catchment is dominated by grazing with some cropping. Some of the catchment is included in the [Narrien Range National Park](/source/Narrien_Range_National_Park) and the [Epping Forest National Park](/source/Epping_Forest_National_Park).[6]

## History

The traditional custodians of the land surrounding the Belyando River are the various [indigenous](/source/Indigenous_Australians) Wakelbura people, including the various smaller Auanbura, Dorobura, and Metherabura clans.[7]

*[Miyan](/source/Miyan_language)* (also known as *Mian*) is a language of [North](/source/North_Queensland)/[Central](/source/Central_Queensland) Queensland.The Miyan language region includes the landscape within the local government area of the [Central Highlands Region](/source/Central_Highlands_Region), including the localities of Mount Douglas, Bulliwallah and [Lake Galilee](/source/Lake_Galilee_(Queensland)).[8]

*[Yagalingu](/source/Yagalingu_language)* (also known as *Jagalingu*, *Auanbura*, *Kokleburra*, *Owanburra*, *Kowanburra*, *Wagalbara*, and *Djagalingu*) is an [Australian Aboriginal language](/source/Australian_Aboriginal_languages) of [Central Queensland](/source/Central_Queensland). Its traditional language region was within the local government area of [Isaac Region](/source/Isaac_Region), from the headwaters of the Belyando River south to Avoca, north to [Laglan](/source/Laglan,_Queensland), west to the [Great Dividing Range](/source/Great_Dividing_Range), and east and south to [Drummond Range](/source/Drummond_Range).[9]

The first European to discover the river was explorer [Thomas Mitchell](/source/Thomas_Mitchell_(explorer)) in 1846 on his fourth and last expedition.[10]

In 1935 the newspaper article about the [Yacamunda Station](/source/Yacamunda_Station) referred to the displacement of the Belyando tribe of Aboriginal people because of noise from airplanes near [Rockhampton](/source/Rockhampton).[11]

The [2010–11 Queensland floods](/source/2010%E2%80%9311_Queensland_floods) caused widespread flooding along the river and the extended isolation of properties from inundation which needed food supply drops.[12]

In 2015 the [Adani Group](/source/Adani_Group) applied for a water licence to extract up to 12.5 gigalitres (2,750,000,000 imp gal; 3,300,000,000 US gal) per year from the Belyando River for use at the [Carmichael coal mine](/source/Carmichael_coal_mine).[13]

## References

1. ["Map of Belyando River, QLD"](http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=213194&cmd=sp). *Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia*. Retrieved 13 November 2015.

1. ["Map of Belyando River, QLD (2)"](http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=213195&cmd=sp). *Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia*. Retrieved 13 November 2015.

1. ["Map of Belyando River (Western Branch), QLD"](http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=205303&cmd=sp). *Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia*. Retrieved 13 November 2015.

1. ["The history of names: Mackay district"](http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2007/12/17/2121007.htm). *www.abc.net.au*. Retrieved 2016-01-01.

1. ["Water resources - Overview - Queensland - Surface Water Management Area: Belyando / Suttor"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090622160844/http://www.anra.gov.au/topics/water/overview/qld/swma-belyando-suttor.html). *Australian Natural Resources Atlas*. [Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts](/source/Department_of_the_Environment,_Water,_Heritage_and_the_Arts). Archived from [the original](http://www.anra.gov.au/topics/water/overview/qld/swma-belyando-suttor.html) on 22 June 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2009.

1. ["Belyando River Basin"](http://wiki.bdtnrm.org.au/index.php?title=Belyando_River_Basin). NQ Dry Tropics. Retrieved 13 November 2015.

1. Howitt, Alfred William (1904). [*The Native Tribes of South-East Australia*](https://archive.org/details/nativetribessou00howigoog). London: Macmillan and Co. p. [62](https://archive.org/details/nativetribessou00howigoog/page/n96)

1. ["Indigenous languages map of Queensland"](https://maps.slq.qld.gov.au/iyil/view/miyan-26?embed=true). *State Library of Queensland*. 2020. Retrieved 21 January 2020.

1. ["Yagalingu"](https://maps.slq.qld.gov.au/iyil/view/157). *Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages map*. Retrieved 30 January 2020.

1. ["Moranbah"](https://web.archive.org/web/20111103200134/http://www.isaac.qld.gov.au/web/guest/moranbah). [Isaac Regional Council](/source/Isaac_Regional_Council). Archived from [the original](http://www.isaac.qld.gov.au/web/guest/moranbah) on 3 November 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2009.

1. ["YACAMUNDA STATION"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70357509). *Central Queensland Herald*. 1935-08-01. Retrieved 2024-06-16.

1. ["Stranded residents may need more food drops"](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-01-06/stranded-residents-may-need-more-food-drops/1896216). *[ABC News](/source/ABC_News_(Australia))*. 6 January 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2011.

1. ["SEIS Appendix 20 - Application to take water from the Belyando River"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304142308/http://www.adanimining.com/Common/Uploads/SEISDocuments/39_SEISDoc_Appendix%20C4e%20-%20Application%20to%20take%20water%20from%20the%20Belyando%20River.pdf). [Adani Group](/source/Adani_Group). Archived from [the original](http://www.adanimining.com/Common/Uploads/SEISDocuments/39_SEISDoc_Appendix%20C4e%20-%20Application%20to%20take%20water%20from%20the%20Belyando%20River.pdf) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2015.

## See also

- [List of rivers of Australia § Queensland](/source/List_of_rivers_of_Australia#Queensland)

## External links

- Pinchin, J. (1978). ["A seismic investigation of the eastern margin of the Galilee Basin, Queensland"](http://www.ga.gov.au/corporate_data/80961/Jou1978_v3_n3_p193.pdf). *BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics*. '***(3): 193–202. [Geoscience Australia](/source/Geoscience_Australia)***

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