Riverina
The Riverina is an agricultural region of South-Western New South Wales, Australia. It is distinguished from other Australian regions by the combination of flat plains, warm to hot climate and an ample supply of water for irrigation. Home to Aboriginal groups for over 40,000 years, the Riverina was originally colonised by Europeans in the mid-19th century as a pastoral region.
About Riverina in brief
The Riverina is an agricultural region of South-Western New South Wales, Australia. It is distinguished from other Australian regions by the combination of flat plains, warm to hot climate and an ample supply of water for irrigation. Home to Aboriginal groups for over 40,000 years, the Riverina was originally colonised by Europeans in the mid-19th century as a pastoral region providing beef and wool to markets in Australia and beyond. In the 20th century, the development of major irrigation areas in the Murray and Murrumbidgee valleys has led to the introduction of crops such as rice and wine grapes. The Riverina has strong cultural ties to Victoria, and the region was the source of much of the impetus behind the federation of Australian colonies. The region is drained by the large Murray-Darling Basin. Rainfall levels are generally low with the median rainfall rising to 250–500 millimetres, rising to 500–800 millimetre on the eastern fringe of the region. The Bureau of Meteorology classify the region in the Hot Dry Zone climatic zone. Places in the river zone can be very hot in the summer months while in the winter, nights can be considerably cold with mild to cool days in the River River River Valley. The average temperature in the region is between 31 °C in January and 33.°C in July in Wagga Wagga. The western Riverina consists largely of featureless saltbush plain, with more saline grey and brown clays found on rarely flooded areas on the perimeter of the floodplain.
The northern boundary beyond the riverina is determined by the Lachlan River catchment area and is referred to as the Central West. Along the Murray to the south, the river borders the state of Victoria and on the east by the Great Dividing Range. The eastern fringe has an average rainfall of 539mm in the south and 539 mm in the eastern edge of Corowa, south of the Corowa River. The most common annual rainfall in the area is between 539 and 639mm on the southern edge of the river valley and the northern fringe of Hay River, Corowa and Corowa. In 2001–2002, 52% of the water runoff was diverted, 77% of which was used for irrigation, and most of the rain falls in the southern part of the area around Hay River and Hay River. There is potential for the region to host several mineral deposit types including coal, petroleum, coal seam methane, gypsum, orogenic gold, Cobar style polymetallic systems, heavy mineral sands and possibly diamonds in these fold belt rocks and basins. The area is home to a campus of Charles Sturt University, the only local provider of higher education for the Region. It also has two major Australian Defence Force establishments, Leeton and Griffith, home to the Australian Army’s 2nd Battalion and the Australian Air Force’s 3rd Battalion. It has a population of around 3,000.
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