The Panalatinga Creek is an urban watercourse located in the southern suburbs of Adelaide in the Australian state of South Australia.

Panalatinga
Location of the river mouth in South Australia
Etymology	Kaurna word
Location
Country	Australia
State	South Australia
Region	Adelaide
Physical characteristics
Source	Mount Lofty Ranges
• location	Bald Hill
• elevation	589 m (1,932 ft)
Mouth	confluence with the Field River
• location	south of Hallett Cove
• coordinates	35°05′16″S 138°32′03″E
• elevation	490 m (1,610 ft)
Length	9 km (5.6 mi)
Basin features
River system	Onkaparinga River
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Course and features

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]

Etymology

The name of the creek is derived from the Kaurna language word of Pandlotinga, and is sometimes mispronounced as Panatalinga.

See also

• List of rivers of South Australia
• Panalatinga Road

References