Belyando River
From headwaters in the Drummond Range below Mount Narounya, the Belyando River flows northerly through a series of waterholes and lagoons in Miyan and Yagalingu Country, draining a 35,000 square kilometre catchment en route to its confluence with the Suttor River. The combined stream then flows into the Burdekin at Lake Dalrymple. Land use in the catchment is dominated by grazing with some cropping.
Twenty-nine tributaries, including the Carmichael River, join the Belyando over a 1,054-kilometre course, which makes the river one of Queensland's longest.
Thomas Mitchell was the first European known to have sighted the river during his fourth and final expedition in 1846.
Sources:
Queensland Wetlands Program, Central Queensland Map Series WQ1203 - Belyando https://environment.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/273615/wq1203-belyando-river-basin.pdf
Wikipedia: Belyando River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belyando_River
