Capel River

Capel River
File:Capel river gnangarra 2.JPG Bridge over the Capel River at Capel
Origin	Junction of Capel River North and Capel River South
Mouth	Geographe Bay
Basin countries	Australia
Length	32 kilometres (20 mi)
Source elevation	76 metres (249 ft)
Mouth elevation	sea level
Basin area	653 square kilometres (252 sq mi)

The Capel River is a river in the South West of Western Australia.

The Capel River is the largest in the Geographe catchment and begins at the junction of Capel River North and Capel River South. It rises at the edge of the Darling Scarp near Goodwood and flows in a north-westerly direction parallel with Goodwood across the northern part of the Blackwood plateau and the Swan Coastal plain.

The river crosses the Bussell Highway near Capel.

An artificial river mouth was cut through the sand dunes adjacent to the Stirling Wetlands in 1880 to allow it to flow directly into Geographe Bay.

The Capel river has 6 tributaries; Capel River North, Capel River South, Gynudup Brook, Camp Gully, Layman Gully and Maidenhair Gully.

The inaugural 2009 Ranger Outdoors Capel Descent was held in June 2009 which consisted of a 15 kilometres (9 mi) part down river, part open ocean paddle along the Capel River and Geographe Bay.

The river was named after Capel Carter Brockman (1839–1924), daughter of John Bussell (1803–1875), who was named after a Miss Capel Carter, a cousin of the Bussells in England with whom the Bussell family members corresponded.