Gascoyne

The area of Gascoyne is one of the nine areas of the Western Australia.

It owes its name with the river of the same name, which was baptized thus by the lieutenant George Grey in 1839 and of the name of his/her friend, the captain J. Gascoyne.

It is limited on 600 kilometers by the Indian Ocean to the west, the area of Pilbara in north and the area of the Mid West in south-east. Its surface is of 137.938 square kilometers and its population of a little more than 10.000 people living in the towns of Carnarvon, Exmouth, Denham, Gascoyne Junction and Coral Bay.

The climate is a dry tropical climate with maximum averages of temperature of 22°C in July and 35°C in January. The number of sunny days is on average 320 days per annum. The average of precipitations, due for the majority to the passage of the cyclones, is approximately 200 millimetres per annum. Because of the climate the vegetation is especially made undergrowth with Spinifex and Mulga and a very small proportion of trees.

The economy of the area is based on:

tourism on the coastal region with the Ningaloo Reef and holds it Baie Shark classified with the world heritage of humanity.
the cattle breeding.
the industry of the salt and the Gypsum.

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