# Echunga

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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Use Australian English|date=March 2013}}
{{Infobox Australian place | type = town 
| name     = Echunga
| state    = sa
| image    = Hagen Arms Hotel, Echunga.JPG
| caption  = Hagen Arms Hotel, located in the main street
| coordinates = {{coord|35|06|0|S|138|47|0|E|display=inline,title}}
| lga      = District Council of Mount Barker
| postcode = 5153
| pop      = <!-- Leave blank to draw the latest automatically from Wikidata. -->
| est      = 1839

| stategov = Electoral district of Heysen
| fedgov   = [Mayo](/source/Division_of_Mayo)
| dist1    = 34
| location1= Adelaide
| dist2    = 8
| location2= Hahndorf
| near-nw  = [Chapel Hill](/source/Chapel_Hill%2C_South_Australia), [Biggs Flat](/source/Biggs_Flat%2C_South_Australia)
| near-n   = [Hahndorf](/source/Hahndorf%2C_South_Australia)
| near-ne  = [Paechtown](/source/Paechtown%2C_South_Australia)
| near-w   = [Jupiter Creek](/source/Jupiter_Creek%2C_South_Australia)
| near-e   = [Mount Barker](/source/Mount_Barker%2C_South_Australia)
| near-sw  = [Meadows](/source/Meadows%2C_South_Australia)
| near-s   = [Flaxley](/source/Flaxley%2C_South_Australia)
| near-se  = [Bugle Ranges](/source/Bugle_Ranges%2C_South_Australia)
| footnotes=<ref name="PLB">{{cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |title=Placename Details: Echunga |id=SA0021861 |work=Property Location Browser |date=1 August 2007 |access-date=28 October 2016 |publisher=Government of South Australia |archive-date=12 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
}}
'''Echunga''' ({{IPAc-en|ɪ|ˈ|tʃ|ʌ|ŋ|g|ə}} {{respell|ih|CHUNG|gə}}) is a small town in the [Adelaide Hills](/source/Adelaide_Hills) located {{convert|34|km}} south-east of [Adelaide](/source/Adelaide) in [South Australia](/source/South_Australia).

The area was settled by Europeans during the period of [British colonisation of South Australia](/source/British_colonisation_of_South_Australia) in 1839, with the town laid out in 1849.<ref name="frr"/> The name of the town was derived from the [Kaurna](/source/Kaurna_language) word ''Ityangga'', meaning "over there"<ref>{{cite web | last=Schultz | first=Chester | title=Place Name Summary: (PNS) 1/02: Kawandilla | date=30 April 2018 | website=Adelaide Research & Scholarship | series=The Southern Kaurna Place Names Project | publisher=[University of Adelaide](/source/University_of_Adelaide) | url=https://www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp/placenames/research-publ/1-02Kawandilla.pdf | access-date=16 November 2020 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>  or "close by".<ref name="smh"/>

[Gold](/source/Gold) was discovered in 1852 and Echunga became the first proclaimed [goldfield](/source/gold_mining) in South Australia. This led to a [gold rush](/source/gold_rush); however, it did not last long, with the [diggings](/source/diggings) exhausted and all but abandoned within a year. Subsequent discoveries in 1853 and 1854 led to smaller and equally short-lived rushes. In 1868 more gold was discovered at nearby [Jupiter Creek](/source/Jupiter_Creek%2C_South_Australia), which proved to be a much larger and more long-lived field.<ref name="frr">{{cite web | url=http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/echunga.htm | title=Echunga | access-date=29 March 2007}}</ref>

For a brief time Echunga prospered and it has been estimated that at its peak it had grown to a population in excess of 1,200.<ref name="smh">{{cite news | url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/South-Australia/Echunga/2005/02/17/1108500204243.html | title=Echunga, South Australia | access-date=27 November 2006 | work=The Sydney Morning Herald | date=8 February 2004}}</ref> Echunga is part of Battunga Country.<ref name="battungacountry">{{cite web | url=http://www.battunga.org.au | title=Battunga Country | access-date=3 July 2007}}</ref>

Echunga frequently hosts stages of the [Tour Down Under](/source/Tour_Down_Under), with riders racing through the main street and up the steep climb of Chruch Hill Road.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-11-13 |title=Church Hill Road {{!}} Santos Tour Down Under |url=https://tourdownunder.com.au/plan-a-trip/atlas/climb-guide/church-hill-road |access-date=2026-05-30 |website=tourdownunder.com.au |language=en-AU}}</ref>

==References==
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Category:Mining towns in South Australia

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