Tharwa
- Local Government Area
- Unincorporated ACT
- Postcode
- 2620
- Population
- 82
- Area
- 3.97 km²
- Coordinates
- -35.5109, 149.0634
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Tharwa
Tharwa is a village on the Murrumbidgee River in the Australian Capital Territory, about 35 kilometres south of Canberra and a gateway to Namadgi National Park. Proclaimed a settlement in 1862, it is the oldest official settlement in the ACT, taking its name from the Aboriginal word for nearby Mount Tennent. The heritage-listed Tharwa Bridge, an Allan truss timber bridge opened in 1895, is the oldest surviving bridge in the territory.
Nearby localities
- ACT Remainder - Tuggeranong 5 km
- Banks 5 km
- Gordon (ACT) 6 km
- Conder 7 km
- Theodore (ACT) 9 km
- Bonython 9 km