Welcome to Brewarrina!
Brewarrina is a small town with population 1,651 in 2016, in the Outback region of New South Wales, Australia. 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 for travellers interested in a rich quieter, lesser known destination, rich in the 65,000 years of Aboriginal history of a sunburnt country.
Brewarrina (pronounced 'bree-warren-ah', locally known as "Bre") is a town in north-west New South Wales, Australia on the banks of the Barwon River in Brewarrina Shire. The name Brewarrina is derived from 'burru waranha', a Weilwan name for a species of Acacia, Cassia tree, "Acacia clumps", "a native standing" or "place where wild gooseberry grows". It is 96 kilometres (60 mi) east of Bourke and west of Walgett on the Kamilaroi Highway, and 787km from Sydney. The population of Brewarrina in 2016 was 1,143. Other towns and villages in the Brewarrina district include: Goodooga, Gongolgon, Weilmoringle and Angledool.