Monarto, South Australia
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| Coordinates: 35°04′54″S 139°07′48″E / 35.08179°S 139.129879°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| Region | Murray and Mallee | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 1908 16 March 2003 (locality) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 203 (SAL 2021) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+9:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+10:30 (ACDT) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5254 | ||||||||||||
| County | Sturt | ||||||||||||
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Monarto is a locality in South Australia 16 km (9.9 mi) west of the Murray River. It is north of the South Eastern Freeway between the Callington and Murray Bridge exits 63 km from Adelaide.
The most common employment in Monarto is raising cows, sheep and hay. Crops in the area include wheat, oats and barley.
In the 1970s Monarto was proposed to be the site of a new satellite city of Adelaide originally known as "New Murray Town". By the turn of the century the proposal had been completely abandoned.