# Coliban River

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River in Victoria, Australia

Not to be confused with [Little Coliban River](/source/Little_Coliban_River).

Coliban Trentham Falls, in the upper reaches of the Coliban River Location of the Coliban River mouth in Victoria Native name Teeranyap, Pe-er, Dindelong yaluk (Djadjawurrung) Pe-er, Dindelong yaluk (Daungwurrung)[1][2] Location Country Australia State Victoria Region Riverina bioregion (IBRA), Central Highlands Local government areas Moorabool, Hepburn, Mount Alexander, City of Greater Bendigo Towns Trentham, Malmsbury, Metcalfe, Redesdale, Mintaro Physical characteristics Source Great Dividing Range • location below Little Hampton • coordinates 37°25′13″S 144°28′38″E / 37.42028°S 144.47722°E / -37.42028; 144.47722 • elevation 701 m (2,300 ft) Mouth confluence with the Campaspe River • location Lake Eppalock • coordinates 36°55′39.5″S 144°32′49.8″E / 36.927639°S 144.547167°E / -36.927639; 144.547167 • elevation 183 m (600 ft) Length 89 km (55 mi) Discharge • location Echuca Basin features River system Victorian north–central catchment, Murray-Darling basin Tributaries • left Kangaroo Creek, Myrtle Creek • right Little Coliban River Waterfalls Trentham Falls [3]

The **Coliban River**, an inland [perennial river](/source/Perennial_river) of the north–central catchment, part of the [Murray-Darling basin](/source/Murray-Darling_basin), is located in the lower [Riverina](/source/Riverina) [bioregion](/source/Interim_Biogeographic_Regionalisation_for_Australia) and [Central Highlands](/source/Victorian_Central_Highlands) region of the [Australian](/source/Australia) state of [Victoria](/source/Victoria_(Australia)). The headwaters of the Coliban River rise on the northern slopes of the [Great Dividing Range](/source/Great_Dividing_Range) and descend to flow north into the [Campaspe River](/source/Campaspe_River_(Victoria)) with the impounded [Lake Eppalock](/source/Lake_Eppalock).

The river is a major water supply source for towns and cities in the lower Central Highlands region.

## Location and features

The river rises below Little Hampton near [Lyonville](/source/Lyonville%2C_Victoria) in the Great Dividing Range and flows generally north, descending 33 metres (108 ft) over the Trentham Falls, and continuing to flow northward to the Upper Coliban, [Lauriston](/source/Lauriston_Reservoir) and Malmsbury reservoirs. Subsequently, it flows through [Malmsbury](/source/Malmsbury%2C_Victoria), [Metcalfe](/source/Metcalfe%2C_Victoria), [Redesdale](/source/Redesdale%2C_Victoria) and [Mintaro](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mintaro,_Victoria&action=edit&redlink=1), and finally reaches its [confluence](/source/Confluence) with the [Campaspe River](/source/Campaspe_River) within [Lake Eppalock](/source/Lake_Eppalock).[4] The river descends 518 metres (1,699 ft) over its 89-kilometre (55 mi) [course](/source/Watercourse).[3]

[Gold](/source/Gold) was found in the river in 1858, and water from the river was used to supply the goldfields cities of [Bendigo](/source/Bendigo) and [Castlemaine](/source/Castlemaine%2C_Victoria). As the population of those cities grew a water supply system consisting of 70 kilometres (43 mi) of tunnels and [aqueducts](/source/Aqueduct_(water_supply)) was constructed. Over time, the water supply was extended to [Kyneton](/source/Kyneton%2C_Victoria), as well as many other smaller towns in the region. Today, the system supplies drinking water to a population exceeding 200,000.[4] [Coliban Water](/source/Coliban_Water) manages the three major water supply reservoirs, which are part of the Eppalock Proclaimed Water Supply Catchment.[5]

## Fauna and flora

The river is home to the [platypus](/source/Platypus) as well as eight native fish species, including the [Macquarie perch](/source/Macquarie_perch). Four of the fish species are endangered and the [trout cod](/source/Trout_cod) is regarded as critically endangered in the river, and may no longer be present. Indigenous vegetation in the area includes the black gum (*[Eucalyptus aggregata](/source/Eucalyptus_aggregata)*) which, though once plentiful in the area, is now rare due to vegetation clearance over many years.[4]

## Etymology

In the Aboriginal [Djadjawurrung language](/source/Djadjawurrung_language), the name for the river is *Teeranyap*, with no clearly defined meaning. In the [Taungurung](/source/Taungurung_language) and Djadjawurrung languages, the names for the river is *Pe-er*, with no clearly defined meaning, and *Dindelong yaluk*, with *yaluk* meaning "river".[1][2][6]

## See also

- [Australia portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Australia)
- [Water portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Water)

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

- [Garfield water wheel](/source/Garfield_water_wheel)

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-vicnames_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-vicnames_1-1) ["Coliban River (entry 615046)"](https://maps.land.vic.gov.au/lassi/VicnamesUI.jsp?placeId=615046). *VICNAMES*. [Government of Victoria](/source/Government_of_Victoria). Retrieved 20 October 2014.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-clark_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-clark_2-1) Clark, Ian; Heydon, Toby (2011). ["Coliban River: Traditional Names"](http://www.vaclang.org.au). *Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages*.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-bonzle_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-bonzle_3-1) ["Map of Coliban River, VIC"](http://maps.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=207172&cmd=sp). *Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia*. Retrieved 20 October 2014.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-greenaust_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-greenaust_4-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-greenaust_4-2) ["Your River: The Coliban - River Recovery"](http://www.coliban.com.au). Greening Australia. Retrieved 19 January 2008.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-coliban_5-0)** ["Coliban Water"](http://www.coliban.com.au). Coliban Water. Retrieved 19 January 2008.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Orr-Young, Jillianne (2012). [*Place and Praxis: Valuing Australian Indigenous Place in Landscape Architecture Practice*](https://researchrepository.rmit.edu.au/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Place-and-praxis-valuing-Australian-Indigenous/9921858965401341) (PhD). [RMIT University](/source/RMIT_University). p. 242.

## External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Coliban River](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Coliban_River).

- [Public Record Office Victoria](https://web.archive.org/web/20110406003950/http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/images/12800/12800-00001-000141-010.asp) Photograph of [Victorian Railways](/source/Victorian_Railways) passenger train crossing the viaduct over the Coliban River at [Malmsbury](/source/Malmsbury%2C_Victoria), November 1945.

- ["Loddon–Campaspe"](https://web.archive.org/web/20141023124410/http://www.mdba.gov.au/about-basin/how-river-runs/loddon-campaspe). *[Murray-Darling Basin Authority](/source/Murray-Darling_Basin_Authority)*. [Australian Government](/source/Australian_Government). 2014. Archived from [the original](http://www.mdba.gov.au/about-basin/how-river-runs/loddon-campaspe) on 23 October 2014.

- ["Campaspe River longitudinal profile"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140215130307/http://www.mdba.gov.au/sites/default/files/Campaspe_LP.pdf) (PDF). *[Murray-Darling Basin Authority](/source/Murray-Darling_Basin_Authority)* (PDF). [Australian Government](/source/Australian_Government). Archived from [the original](http://www.mdba.gov.au/sites/default/files/Campaspe_LP.pdf) (PDF) on 15 February 2014.

- ["Campaspe"](http://environmentvictoria.org.au/lifeblood/campaspe). *Our rivers*. Environment Victoria.

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v t e Rivers of Victoria Rivers that flow towards the coast Tasman Sea / Bass Strait East Gippsland catchment Ada (East Gippsland) Arte Back Lake Barracoota Bemm Bendoc Benedore Berrima Betka Big (Brodribb) Bonang Brodribb Buchan Cann Cann River East Combienbar Lake Corringle Crooked Lake Curlip Dargo Deddick Delegate Dry Errinundra Genoa Gippsland Lakes Lake King Lake Victoria (East Gippsland) Goolengook Hartland Humffray Ingeegoodbee Jack (East Gippsland) Little (Moroka) Little (Snowy River NP) Little (Sydenham Inlet) Little (Tambo) Little Arte Little Dargo Little Goolengook Little Yalmy McKenzie Mitchell Moroka Mueller Murrindal Nicholson Queensborough Red Rich Rocky Rodger Saint Patricks Snowy Suggan Buggan Tambo Thurra Timbarra Lake Tyers Wallagaraugh Wentworth Wingan Wongungarra Wonnangatta Yalmy Yeerung West Gippsland catchment Aberfeldy Ada (Baw Baw) Agnes Albert Avon (Wellington) Barkly Caledonia Carey Darby Dolodrook Franklin Gippsland Lakes Lake Coleman Lake Reeve Lake Wellington Lake Glenmaggie Jack (Wellington) Jordan Latrobe Little (Avon) Little Toorongo Loch Macalister Moe Morwell Perry Powlett Tanjil Tarra Tarwin Thomson Thomson Reservoir Tidal Toorongo Turton Tyers Wellington Melbourne Water catchment Bass Bunyip Dandenong Don Lang Lang Lerderderg Little (Greater Geelong) Little Bass Little Lang Lang Little Yarra Maribyrnong O'Shannassy Patterson Plenty Tarago The Old Watts Werribee Yarra Corangamite catchment Aire Anglesea Barham Barwon Calder Carlisle Lake Connewarre Lake Corangamite Cumberland Curdies Elliott Erskine Ford Geary Gellibrand Grey Johanna Kennet Leigh Little Aire Lake Martin Moorabool Parker St George Sherbrook Woady Yaloak Wye Yarrowee Great Australian Bight Glenelg Hopkins catchment Lake Bolac Lake Burrumbeet Chetwynd Crawford Dundas Eumeralla Fitzroy Glenelg Hopkins Merri Moyne Shaw Stokes Surrey Wando Wannon Rivers of the Murray–Darling basin North–East catchment Big (Mitta Mitta) Buckland Buffalo Bundara Catherine Cobungra Dandongadale Dart Lake Dartmouth Gibbo Lake Hume Kiewa King Mitta Mitta Murray Ovens Rose Victoria Goulburn Broken catchment Acheron Big (Goulburn) Black Broken Delatite Lake Eildon Goulburn Goulburn Weir Howqua Jamieson Little (Cathedral Range) Little Rubicon Murray Murrindindi Royston Rubicon Steavenson Taggerty Taponga Torbreck Yea North–Central catchment Avoca Campaspe Cairn Curran Reservoir Coliban Lake Eppalock Laanecoorie Reservoir Little Coliban Little Murray Loddon Murray Mallee catchment Lindsay Murray Rivers that drain inland North–Central catchment Avon (Grampians) Lake Buloke Richardson Wimmera catchment Lake Albacutya Lake Hindmarsh MacKenzie Wimmera

v t e Rivers of the Murray–Darling basin, Australia Catchments predominantly in Queensland Paroo / Warrego / Culgoa catchment Birrie Bokhara (QLD/NSW) Culgoa (QLD/NSW) Langlo Nive Paroo (QLD/NSW) Ward Warrego (QLD/NSW) Weir (QLD/NSW) Balonne / Macintyre catchment Balonne Beardy (NSW) Beardy Waters (NSW) Bluff (NSW) Condamine Deepwater (NSW) Dumaresq (NSW) Macintyre (NSW/QLD) Macintyre Brook Maranoa Merivale Mole (NSW/QLD) Narran (QLD/NSW) Severn - NSW (NSW) Severn - QLD (QLD/NSW) Pike Catchments predominantly in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory Murray catchment Edward Little Murray Murray Niemur Rufus Tooma Wakool Back (Edward) Back (Billabong 1) Back (Billabong 2) Billabong Box Cootnite Estuary Forest Four Mile Jerra Jerra Kangaroo Little Billabong Lunts Mahonga Mountain Nowranie Piccaninny Sawyers Sheep Wash Simmons Ten Mile Tumudgery Tuppal Yarra Yarra Darling catchment Bogan Darling Great Darling Anabranch Little (Parkes) Bulbodney Burrill Bywash Billabong Cookopie Coonalhugga Genaren Glue Pot Gundong Gunningbar Kellys Cowal Moonagee Cowal Mulla Mulla Cowal Nyangi Bogan Cowal Popiltah Redbank Sandy (Bogan) Stony (Darling Anabranch) Tomingley Barwon / Macquarie sub-catchment Barwon Bell Bokhara (QLD/NSW) Boomi Campbells Castlereagh Cobrabald Cockburn Coolaburragundy Crudine Cudgegong Duckmaloi Fish Gwydir Horton Little Weir Little (Dubbo) Macdonald Macquarie Manilla Mehi Meroo Mooki Moonie Namoi Peel Rocky Talbragar Turon Abington Attunga Bakers Bald Berrygil Boiling Down (Goonoo Goonoo) Bowman Brigalow Bundock Carole Cheshire Clay Coolibar Crossing Duncans Dungowan Emu Swamp Evans Plains Ewenmar Frazers (Coonamble) Goonoo Goonoo Halls (Gwydir) Halls (Mehi) Halls (Namoi) Horsearm Jamiesons Lambruk Limestone Menedebri Middlebrook (Goonoo Goonoo) Mountain (Sandy (Peel 2)) Moonbi Moore Moredun Mulla Mulla Oakey (Peel) Oakey (Jamiesons) Queen Charlottes Quegobla Quirindi Reedy (Peel) Sandy (Bogan) Sandy (Bohena) Sandy (Gwydir) Sandy (Jamiesons) Sandy (Peel 1) Sandy (Peel 2) Sandy (Talbragar) Spring (Goonoo Goonoo) Swamp Oak Tangaratta Timbumburi Tycannah Murrumbidgee catchment Big Badja Billabong (Junee) Bredbo Cotter (ACT) Goobarragandra Goodradigbee Goorudee Gudgenby (ACT) Kybeyan Lachlan Molonglo (NSW/ACT) Murrumbidgee (NSW/ACT) Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area Naas (ACT) Numeralla Orroral (ACT) Paddys (ACT) Peak Queanbeyan (NSW/ACT) Strike-a-Light Tidbinbilla (ACT) Tumut Yarrangobilly Yass Adelong Adjungbilly Back Balgalal Barmedman Berthong Betty Brook Birchams Blackfellows Black Joes Blakney Bland Blowering Blue Gum (ACT) Bogolong Bogong Bongongalong Booroomba (ACT) Boundary Bowning Bramina Bribbaree Brindabella Broken Cart Brooks Brothers Brungle Buddong Bull Flat Bulla Bungendore Bundidgerry Burkes Burra (Gundagai) Burra (Palerang) Burra Burra Burrangong Califat Cappanana Celeys Cohen Coleman Condor Cooks Vale Cooma Back Cooma Cowabbie Cowra Cowriga Cullinga Cunningham (Jugiong) Cutmore Derringullen Dinnertime Doubtful Dry (ACT) Emu Flat Feints Flea Flyers Frogs Hole Gibraltar (ACT) Gilmore Ginninderra (ACT) Graveyard Gudgenby (ACT) Half Moon (ACT) Hannans Happy Jacks Horse Hospital (ACT) Houlaghans Hut Illalong Ironbong Jeir Jerrabomberra (NSW/ACT) Jillimatong Jounama Jugiong Kangaroo Kindra Left Hand (ACT) Licking Hole Long (ACT) Long (Tumut) Lousy Gully McGregors McKeahnies Majors Mannus Maragle Micalong Mimosa Murrumbateman Mutmutbilly Muttama Myers Naas Narraburra Nursery (ACT) Paddys Peppers Pigeon Square Pinchgut Pinnacle Porcupine Punchbowl (ACT) Redbank Reedy (ACT) Rock Flat Rocky Ponds Rolling Grounds Rushy Sandy (Adjungbilly) Sandy (Bland) Sandy (Waterfall) Spring (Jugiong) Sugarloaf Sullivans (NSW/ACT) Tibeaudo Tuggeranong (ACT) Tumbarumba Turveys Falls Undoo Wee Jasper Weedallion Yammatree Lachlan sub–catchment Abercrombie Belubula Bolong Boorowa Crookwell Isabella Phils Retreat Billabong Bolaro Box Camp Breakfast Burra Burra Cadiangullong Coombing Copperhannia Crooked Goobang Gunningbland Jacks Jerrara Jerrawa Kildary Limestone Little Mirrool Magpie Mandamah Mandurama Meglo Mirrool Myall Native Dog Nyrang Panuara Peelwood Piesleys Pudman Ramsays Lagoon Sandy (Mirrool) Swallow Tuena Wah Wah No 9 Wheeo Yarranjerry Catchments predominantly in Victoria North East catchment Big (Mitta Mitta) Buckland Buffalo Bundara Catherine Cobungra Dandongadale Dart Gibbo Kiewa King Mitta Mitta Murray Ovens Rose Taponga Victoria Back (Little Snowy) Banimboola Barwidgee Benambra Billabong (Ovens) Black Range Boggy Boon Brandy Brown (Dart) Bucheen Buenba Buffalo Bullhead Burgoigee Butcher Camp Charlestown Chinaman Christmas Clear Dean (Snowy) Deep (Gibbo) Diggers Dingo Donnovan Dry Forest Eight Mile Evans Fairley Fifteen Mile Findlay First Fork Four Mile Front Garden Georges German Gill Glencoe Glen Wills Gray Harker Hollonds Honeysuckle Hurdle Japan Jarvis Jim and Jack Kangaroo King Kumbada Larsden Lightning Little Snowy Livingstone Long (Taponga) Long (Ovens) Long Corner Lord Mac McKay Meadow Middle (Big) Middle (Ovens) Mine Morass Morgan Morgan (Ovens) Morses Mt Leinster Mount Smythe Mount Tabor Mount Wills Murray (Buckland) Myrtle Nine Mile One Mile One Mile (Ovens) Pegleg Pheasant Raymond Reedy (Livingstone) Reedy (Ovens) Rodda Rogers Running (Kiewa) Running (Taponga) Sandy (Buffalo) Sandy (Gibbo) Sassafras Second (Taponga) Scrubby (Mitta Mitta) Shady Smoko Snowy (Mitta Mitta) Snowy (Ovens) Soldier Splitters Spring (Mitta Mitta) Stony (Gibbo) Stony (King) Stony (Ovens) Stony (Snowy) Straight Running Tallangatta Thilluna Toke Tomahawk Trappers Turnback Vincent Washaway Watchingorra Waterfall White (Taponga) Whorouly Wilson Wombat Wright Yarrarabula Yellow Goulburn Broken catchment Acheron Big (Goulburn) Black Broken Delatite Goulburn Howqua Jamieson Little (Cathedral Range) Little Rubicon Murray Murrindindi Royston Rubicon Steavenson Taggerty Yea Ault Beeac Back Boggy Brankeet Bull Burnt Captain Castle Cattanach Canal Cerberus Connelly Dabyminga Devil Plain Dip East Goulburn Main Channel Edwards Falls Flourbag Ford Gaffneys Grisdale Gutter Health Home Howes Hughes Jack Johnson Katy Keppel King Parrot Knowles Gap Lanky Lazarini Major Middle Station Mill Plain Pranjip Quartz Reedy (Goulburn) Rellimeiggam River Robbie Rocky S Sandy Scrubby Seven Snake Snobs Spring Stander Stony (Delatite) Stony (Goulburn) Stuart Murray Canal Sunday Ti Tree U T Williams Wilks Yellowdindi North Central catchment Avoca Campaspe Coliban Little Coliban Loddon Murray Axe Bannacher Bet Bet Birch Blind Boundary Gully Bradford Brenanah Brown Hill Bullabul Burke Burnt Campbell Caralulup Carmanuel Carr Cherry Tree Creswick Doctors Fentons Forest Glenlogie Homebush Hope Jews Harp Jim Crow Joyces Little (Loddon) Kangderaar Kingower McCallum McLachlan Middle (Avoca) Middle (Loddon) Middleton Moina Mosquito (Avoca) Mosquito (Campaspe) Mountain (Avoca) Mount Pleasant Muckleford Number Two Pennyroyal Pipers (Campaspe) Redbank Ryan Salt Sandy (Avoca 1) Sandy (Avoca 2) Sangus Serpentine Sheepwash Smoky Splitters Spring (Loddon) St Arnaud Stone Jug Strathfillan Tarilta Tarpaulin Timor Tullaroop Twelve Mile (Loddon) Waranga Western Channel Wehla Weston Yandoit Yeungroon Mallee catchment Little Murray Murray Catchments predominantly in South Australia Murray Category Commons

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