Nandewar

Nandewar
Region
Nandewar ranges (looking east from the Brigalow Belt South) The interim Australian bioregions, with Nandewar in red
Country	Australia
State	Australia
Area
• Total	27,019.77 km^2 (10,432.39 sq mi)
Regions around Nandewar Brigalow Belt South Brigalow Belt South New England Tablelands Brigalow Belt South Nandewar New England Tablelands Brigalow Belt South Sydney Basin NSW North Coast

Nandewar (code NAN),^[1] an interim Australian bioregion, is located in New South Wales and Queensland,^[2] and comprises an area of 2,701,977 hectares (6,676,730 acres),^[1] surrounded by the Brigalow Belt South to the west, south-west and north-west, and to the east by the New England Tablelands.^[3] This is a region of hills on Palaeozoic sediments and lithosols^[2] and of Eucalyptus albens woodlands and summer rainfall.^[2]

Regions

In the IBRA system Nandewar has the code of NAN, and it has four sub-regions:^[4]

IBRA regions and subregions: IBRA7
IBRA subregion	IBRA code	Area
		ha	acres
Nandewar Northern Complex	NAN01	962,254	2,377,780
Inverell Basalts	NAN02	230,854	570,450
Kaputar	NAN03	78,307	193,500
Peel	NAN04	1,430,562	3,535,000

See also

• New South Wales portal
• Queensland portal
• Environment portal

• Geography of Australia

References

1. "Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA7) regions and codes". Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Commonwealth of Australia. 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
2. Environment Australia. "Revision of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) and Development of Version 5.1 - Summary Report". Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Australian Government. Archived from the original on 4 September 2006. Retrieved 6 May 2018. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
3. "Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, Version 7: regions" (PDF). Retrieved 6 May 2018.
4. "IBRA7 subregions and codes" (PDF). Retrieved 6 May 2018.