Bathurst Region

- 33.416666666667149.56666666667Koordinaten: 33 ° 25 ' S, 149 ° 34' O The Bathurst Region is a Local Government Area ( LGA) in the Australian state of New South Wales. The area is 3820 km ² and has about 36,000 inhabitants.

Bathurst is the Central - West region of the state in the Central Tablelands about 200 km west of the city of Sydney, the capital of New South Wales. The area includes 93 districts and towns, including Bathurst, Brewongle, Eglinton, Georges Plains, Hill End, Kelso, Meadow Flat, Peel, Perth Ville, Raglan, Sofala, Trunkey Creek, Vittoria, Wattle Flat and Yetholme. The seat of the Regional Councils located in the town of Bathurst in the center of the LGA, where about 37,000 inhabitants.

To Bathurst lying around some former gold mining towns that are only villages with less than 100 inhabitants today. Sofala is the oldest, still existing gold mining town in Australia, in which there are prospectors today.

Additional points of interest outside the city of Bathurst are the Abercrombie Caves, huge natural limestone caves near Trunkey Creek. An artist tradition maintains Hill End, since there had been formed in the late 1940 to the well-known Australian artist Russell Drysdale and Donald Friend an artists' colony.

Management

The Bathurst Regional Council has nine members, who are elected by the residents of the LGA. Bathurst is not divided into districts. From the circle of Councillor also the Mayor ( Mayor ) of the Council recruited.