Cocoroc, Victoria

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Cocoroc Melbourne, Victoria
Postcode:	3030
Location:	44 km (27 mi) from Melbourne
LGA:	City of Wyndham
State District:	Lara
Federal Division:	Lalor
Suburbs around Cocoroc: Werribee Little River Cocoroc Werribee South Port Phillip

Cocoroc is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Wyndham.

Cocoroc's history starts in 1892 when the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works established a sewage filtration system to the west of the Werribee River.

This area was isolated and too far from Melbourne, so a village was built to house the workers, this village became the town of Cocoroc.

In 1910, 300 people lived in Cocoroc, a post office also in existence. Things grew in the '20s, Cocoroc developing a public hall and three primary schools, the first one was built earlier in 1894 and was appropriately named Cocoroc.

Today, this town is all but gone, the name Cocoroc still surviving. The sewage filtration system is in the Metropolitan Farm near Cocoroc.

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• Cocoroc, Victoria is at coordinates 37°58′01″S 144°37′19″E / -37.967, 144.622 (Cocoroc, Victoria)Coordinates: 37°58′01″S 144°37′19″E / -37.967, 144.622 (Cocoroc, Victoria)

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