Australia
New South Wales
Brewarrina Shire

Brewarrina

Brewarrina is a small town with a population 1,651 in 2016 in . It is known for possibly having the oldest human construction anywhere in the world, with the fish traps being ten times older than Stonehenge, and suits travellers interested in a quieter, lesser known destination, rich in the 65,000 years of Aboriginal history of a sunburnt country.
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  • Type: Town with 743 residents
  • Description: town in New South Wales, Australia
  • Also known as: “Brewarrina, New South Wales” and “Brewarrina, New South Wales, Australia”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps.

Museum
Photo: Conollyb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
are heritage-listed Australian Aboriginal fish traps on the at Brewarrina, in the Orana region of, , Australia.

Brewarrina

Latitude
-29.9627° or 29° 57′ 46″ south
Longitude
146.8606° or 146° 51′ 38″ east
Population
743
Elevation
120 metres (394 feet)
IATA airport code
BWQ
United Nations Location Code
AU BWQ
Open location code
5R282VP6+W6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3406571490
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2174123
Wiki­data ID
Q911376
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Swedish—“Brewarrina” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Brewarrina”
  • Basque: “Brewarrina”
  • Cebuano: “Brewarrina”
  • Chinese: “佈雷沃里納 (新南威爾士州)”
  • Chinese: “布雷沃里納 (新南威爾士州)”
  • Chinese: “布雷沃里納”
  • Dutch: “Brewarrina”
  • French: “Brewarrina”
  • German: “Brewarrina”
  • Irish: “Brewarrina”
  • Italian: “Brewarrina”
  • Nauru: “Brewarrina”
  • Persian: “بروارینا، نیو ساوت ولز”
  • Polish: “Brewarrina”
  • Russian: “Бреворрина”
  • Spanish: “Brewarrina (Nueva Gales del Sur)”
  • Spanish: “Brewarrina”
  • Swedish: “Brewarrina”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Brewarrina”. Photo: Conollyb, CC BY-SA 3.0.