 The Delatite River rises in Howqua Gap, between the ski resort mountains of Mount Stirling and Mount Buller, of the Great Dividing Range.The river flows generally westwards, initially through rugged national park and state forests and, as the river descends, through more open woodlands.The river is joined by nine tributaries, passing north of the town of before reaching its confluence in Lake Eildon, an impoundment formed on the Goulburn and Delatite rivers, just east of .