Bega Valley Shire Council

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Bega Valley
New South Wales

Location in NSW

Population:

32,431^[2]

Area:

6,280 km²

Mayor:

Tony Allen

Council Seat:

Bega (Zingel Place)^[1]

Region:

South Coast

State District:

Bega, Monaro

Federal Division:

Eden-Monaro

Website: http://www.begavalley.nsw.gov.au/

LGAs around Bega Valley
Cooma-Monaro	Eurobodalla	Pacific Ocean
Bombala	Bega Valley	Pacific Ocean
Victoria	Victoria	Pacific Ocean

Bega Valley Shire is located on the south-eastern coastline of New South Wales and extends from Bermagui in the north to the Victorian border in the south. It includes the towns of Bega, Tathra, Merimbula, Tura Beach, Wolumla, Cobargo, Bemboka, Pambula, Pambula Beach, Towamba and the former whaling port of Eden. The Bega Valley Shire is also known as the Sapphire Coast.

The Shire is the largest local government area in coastal NSW with an area of 6,280 square kilometres and has the longest coastline of any council in NSW. It is sparsely populated, largely because 75% of the area belongs to various National Parks and State Forests. The population as of the 2001 Census was 30,524, of which 6,956, or 22.8%, live in rural areas outside identified towns and villages.

thebegavalley.org.au is a popular community website in the Shire where residents can have their own personal and business oriented pages hosted on the website for free. The website is involved in the Open-Source movement, and is renowned in the shire for its use of the Typo3 content management system.

Bega Valley is particularly known for its dairy industry, though tourism and the Sydney rock oyster industry are of growing importance.

In August 1999 the Bega Valley shire council was sacked and an administrator was put in place untill 2002 where a new council was elected.