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Echuca is a metropolis placed at the banks of the Murray River and Campaspe River in Victoria, Australia. The border city of Moama is adjacent at the northern aspect of the Murray River in New South Wales. Echuca is the administrative centre and largest agreement within the Shire of Campaspe. At the time of the 2016 census, Echuca had a populace of 12,906. The populace of the mixed Echuca and Moama townships turned into estimated to be 20,660 at June 2016. Echuca lies within traditional Yorta Yorta united states of america. The metropolis's name is an Aboriginal word meaning "assembly of the waters".

Echuca is situated close to the junction of the Goulburn, Campaspe, and Murray Rivers. Its function at the closest factor of the Murray to Melbourne contributed to its improvement as a thriving river port metropolis during the 19th century. Echuca become based by using one of the most enterprising figures of the early colonial length, an ex-convict named Henry Hopwood. In 1850 he purchased a small punt to ferry human beings and items throughout the Murray River close to the Campaspe junction. As the exceedingly small agreement referred to as Hopwood's Ferry grew, it have become the metropolis of Echuca. The Hopwood's Punt Post Office opened around 1854 and turned into renamed Echuca Post Office on 1 January 1855.

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