River
Ashburton River
825 km from source to mouth · Australia.
AustraliaFlows into Indian Ocean10th longest in Australia
In numbers
Length
825km
Average flow
48m³/s
Basin
66,850km²
Drop
575m
from 575 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
825 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 575 m
- 159 kmEthel Rivertributary
- 273 kmAngelo Rivertributary
- 524 kmHardey Rivertributary
- 594 kmHenry Rivertributary
- 825 kmIndian Oceanat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in the Pilbara regiom of Western Australia
At the mouth it carries 48 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 52 seconds. It drops from 575 m to 0 m, 0.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 66,850 km², about the size of LK. 7,166 people live in it. Highest water: March and June; lowest: from September to December. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- OnslowLargest city on its banks · 1,157 people
- Learmonth Airport (LEA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 125 km from the cityCar hire at LEA airport (Exmouth)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Ashburton River, month by month
Highest water: March and June
Lowest water: from September to December. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 2.8 m³/s in the lowest month to 140 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
Ashburton River: the basin in numbers
77,104 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 7,166people live in the basin
- 0/km²people per km²
- 427maverage altitude of the basin
- 283mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.0°Caverage air temperature
- 9%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 58% 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
Ashburton River: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Ashburton 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.
2beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
2islands off the mouthIslandyas
Beaches (2)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Sunrise Beach21 km away29.2°C
- Sunset Beach20 km away29.2°C
Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Weelarrana Hill12 km away
Islands off the mouth (2)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Bessieres Island25 km away0.6km²
- Thevenard Island28 km away
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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
Ashburton River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (4)
Also: Angelo River, Hardey River, Henry River, Ethel River
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q724934) · 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 | Coastya, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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