Buckenbowra River rises on the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range within Monga National Park, approximately 1.6 km (1 mi) northeast of the village of Monga, flows through a series of heavily wooded gorges, joined by two minor tributaries, before reaching its confluence with the Clyde River within Clyde River National Park, around 5 km (3 mi) from the town of Batemans Bay.

[2] The traditional custodians of the land surrounding Buckenbowra River are the Indigenous Australian people of the Walbanja clan.

[3] In the 1850s this rough track was replaced with a convict-built road, supported in cuttings by dry stone walls.

[4] The gorges through which the Buckenbowra River flows are dominated by stands of casuarina trees.

Mangroves are endemic along the river banks, providing the only recorded habitat for the lichen Pertusaria melaleucoides.