Barratta Creek

Water type: River
Basin: Coral Sea
Continent:
Australia & Oceania
Climate:
Arid (desert)
Country:
Australia
The Barratta Creek is a creek in North Queensland, Australia.
The headwaters of the creek rise below Bunkers Hill in the Leichhardt Range in the Great Dividing Range and flow in a north easterly direction. The creek continues through mostly uninhabited country past Woodhouse Mountain travelling almost parallel with the Haughton River eventually crossing the Bruce Highway and entering the Bowling Green Bay Conservation Park then discharging into Bowling Green Bay near Jerona, before flowing into the Coral Sea. The river descends 224 metres over its 109-kilometre course.
The catchment area of the creek occupies an 1,831 square kilometres, of which an area of 173 square kilometres is composed of estuarine wetlands.