Riverina Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
region of New South Wales, Australia
About Riverina
The inland and rural Riverina region is known as a source of a significant amount of the fruit and vegetable production of the country. Aboriginal people are thought to have inhabited the Riverina for at least 40,000 years. The Wiradjuri people were the original inhabitants of much of south western New South Wales including most of the Riverina region along the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan rivers. British exploration of the Riverina began in 1817. Cattle raising was the major industry in the 1840s with sheep becoming predominant in the 1860s. The Riverina's economic and cultural ties withVictoriaprovided a major impetus to the Australian federation movements in the late 1800s as crossing the New South Wales-Victorian border was not an easy thing to do and having to pay tariffs when getting goo
Riverina Travel Guide Sections
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