Panalatinga | |
Name Etymology: | Kaurna word |
Pushpin Map: | Australia South Australia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the river mouth in South Australia |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Australia |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | South Australia |
Subdivision Type3: | Region |
Subdivision Name3: | Adelaide |
Length: | 9km (06miles) |
Source1: | Mount Lofty Ranges |
Source1 Location: | Bald Hill |
Source1 Elevation: | 589m (1,932feet) |
Mouth: | confluence with the Field River |
Mouth Location: | south of |
Mouth Coordinates: | -35.0878°N 138.5341°W |
Mouth Elevation: | 490m (1,610feet) |
River System: | Onkaparinga River |
Custom Label: | Waterhole |
Extra: | [1] |
The Panalatinga Creek is an urban watercourse located in the southern suburbs of Adelaide in the Australian state of South Australia.
Part of the Onkaparinga River catchment area that drains the western slopes of the Mount Lofty Ranges,[2] the creek rises in the foothills in the southern Adelaide suburbs around Chandlers Hill through to Trott Park, South Australia and reaches its confluence with the Field River near the Southern Expressway. Now no more than a narrow suburban watercourse, Panalatinga Creek's earliest European recorded use was as the source of water for John Reynell's early vineyards around his Chateau Reynella homestead in 1849.[3]
The name of the creek is derived from the Kaurna language word of Pandlotinga, and is sometimes mispronounced as Panatalinga.