The Echuca Collective - Introduction

Located on the Murray River in Victoria, Australia, Echuca was founded in 1853. Australia’s second largest inland port in the 1870s, Echuca was a vital thoroughfare for trade, carrying wheat, wool and other goods between settlements along the 2,679 km river that starts in the Snowy Mountains in NSW and ends in Goolwa in South Australia. The introduction of the railway in 1864, led to the gradual decline of the riverboat trade but the Murray still provides irrigation to the region, for crops and livestock.