Chinchilla

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Located in the Western Darling Downs, the town's major industries are rural and saw milling. Its rural products include wheat, sorghum, barley, cattle, sheep, fruit and vegetables. Chinchilla is also a petrified wood and gem fossicking area.

Chinchilla is known as the Melon Capital of Australia and is a favoured destination for petrified wood fossicking, water skiing, fishing, bushwalking and camping.

Located just 8 kilometres south of the town, the Chinchilla Weir offers fun watersports including skiing. Set in rugged mountainous country, Chinchilla has a shire area of 8689 square kilometres and is 300 metres above sea level.

Chinchilla Shire has the largest natural forest in the Southern Hemisphere, where in late winter and spring a abundance of native flowers come into bloom. This, along with the abundance of native wildlife makes Chinchilla an ideal getaway for nature lovers.