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Cobar, New South Wales
For over 100 years Cobar has been a mining town. Even today an essential part of every visitor's itinerary is a visit to the New Cobar Open Cut Gold Mine and the Peak Gold Mine. Cobar is one of those deceptive country towns which, on the surface, just looks like any one of a hundred rural service centres.
However just beneath this ordinary exterior there is an exceptional museum, an excellent Mining Heritage Park and a superb display of Aboriginal rock art at Mount Grenfell. Mining still drives the local economy but, in the winter months, it becomes popular with tourists driving from the coast to Broken Hill.
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Location
Cobar is located 690 km north-west of Sydney via the Blue Mountains and Mudgee.
It is 243 m above sea level.
Population
According to the 2016 census of Population, there were 3,990 people in Cobar.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 11.8% of the population.
78.5% of people were born in Australia and 83.4% of people only spoke English at home.
The most common responses for religion were Catholic 33.8%, No Religion 18.9% and Anglican 17.1%.