Rivers & Lakes · WA

Western Australia

6,726 named waters 37 catchments 5 drainage divisions

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Waters written up so far

Blackwood River mouth boundary reach

The short final stretch where Western Australia's longest south-west river meets the coast — the one reach of the Blackwood that falls inside DPIRD's coastal South West fishing region, and the reason the rules change between the inland river and the sea.

The catchments

37 across 5 divisions

North Western Plateau

2 catchments · 1,834 waters in WA

De Grey River Sandy Desert

South Western Plateau

2 catchments · 1,750 waters in WA

Nullarbor Salt Lake

South West Coast

14 catchments · 1,381 waters in WA

Albany Coast Blackwood River Busselton Coast Collie-Preston Rivers Denmark River Donnelly River Esperance Coast Frankland-Deep Rivers Kent River Moore-Hill Rivers Murray River (WA) Shannon River Swan Coast-Avon River Warren River

Tanami-Timor Sea Coast

10 catchments · 911 waters in WA

Cape Leveque Coast Drysdale River Fitzroy River (WA) Isdell River Keep River King Edward River Lennard River Ord-Pentecost Rivers Prince Regent River Victoria River-Wiso

Pilbara-Gascoyne

9 catchments · 852 waters in WA

Ashburton River Fortescue River Gascoyne River Greenough River Murchison River Onslow Coast Port Hedland Coast Wooramel River Yannarie River

Looking beyond Western Australia? The national map shows all 218 catchments, and each catchment page lists its drainage wherever it runs.

How Western Australia drains