Cordillo Downs or Cordillo Downs Station is both a pastoral lease currently operating as a cattle station and a formal bounded locality in South Australia. It is located about 116 kilometres (72 mi) north of Innamincka and 155 kilometres (96 mi) south east of Birdsville. The name and boundaries of the locality were created on 26 April 2013 for the long established local name.[1]
The station once occupied an area of 7,800 square kilometres (3,012 sq mi) and was regarded as Australia's largest sheep station (in the 1880s, Cordillo set a record of shearing over 85,000 sheep in a season).[2]
One of the best known features of the station is the heritage-listed woolshed that is constructed of stone with a curved tin roof, built this way due to a lack of timber in the area.[3] Cordillo gets around 167.3mm of rain annually.[4]
- ^ "Cordillo Downs". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
- ^ "Exploroz Cordillo Downs". 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
- ^ "Birdsville Strzelecki – Legendary tracks of the Marree Innamincka District" (PDF). Government of South Australia. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
- ^ http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=139&p_display_type=dataFile&p_stn_num=017019 [bare URL]