Tuggeranong is a municipality in Canberra , the capital of Australia . It is 159.9 km² in size, comprises 19 districts with a total of 90,410 inhabitants (2003) and is located on the Murrumbidgee River in a valley of the Brindabella Range . The districts were built between 1974 and 1992, over half of them in the mid-1980s. The development is concentrated around Lake Tuggeranong , which was dammed in 1987. Cave paintings and excavated objects suggest that the Aborigines lived here as early as 21,000 years ago. Tuggeranong is an Aboriginal term that means "cold plain".
Districts
Banks
Bonython
Calwell
Chisholm
Conder
Fadden
Gilmore
Gordon
Gowrie
Greenway
Hume
Isabella Plains
Kambah
Macarthur
Monash
Oxley
Richardson
Theodore
Wanniassa
climate
Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for Tuggeranong