The Mallee is, for all practical purposes, completely flat and very low-lying: in fact, for long geological periods the whole region has been inundated by the ocean.
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10 Facts About The Mallee
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The Mallee has no surface drainage: the native vegetation has so high a rooting density that the rainfall of most years is easily absorbed and the porous sandy soils mean that any excess in an exceptionally wet year will recharge groundwater supplies which tend to be highly saline.
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Climate of the Mallee is the hottest and driest in Victoria owing to its inland location.
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At the 2011 census, the Mallee had a population of 81,544, most of which live close to the Murray River in the district's two cities, Mildura and Swan Hill.
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The Mallee is a primarily agricultural region: apart from possible mineral sands in the west and salt from certain ephemeral lakes there are no mineral deposits of value and industry is generally on a small scale and confined to food processing.
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The Mallee is one of the nine districts in Victoria used for weather forecasting by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
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The term Wimmera The Mallee has been used by the federal member for The Mallee to describe their electorate, as the electorate covers both regions more-or-less in their entirety.
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The Mallee is sometimes referred to as an economic region, of the Australian state of Victoria.
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People in the central Mallee sometimes believe that "the Mallee" only includes the dryland farming portion of the region.
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