Pulchra, New South Wales

Pulchra is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Yungnulgra County in far North West New South Wales.[1][2]

The Parish has an arid landscape and the nearest town is Whitecliffs. Pulchra has extremely hot summers and mild winters. Summers would usually exceed 36 °C. Winters are usually around 17 °C.[3][4] The annual average rainfall is 249.7 millimetres (9.8 in) which would make it a semi-arid climate except that its high evapotranspiration, or its aridity, makes it a desert climate. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert),.[5] is almost unpopulated, with less than two inhabitants per square kilometer.[6]

The parish is halfway between Mutawintji National Park and White Cliffs NSW, and Sydney, Australia is 880 km away to the east-southeast of Pulchra. Pulchra is at an elevation of approximately 163m above sea level.[7]

References

1. "Yungnulgra". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
2. Historic map of Yungnulgra County.
3. "Oz Forecast - Pulchra, NSW Radar, Forecast and Weather Stations".
4. "Pulchra, Australia 7 Day Weather Forecast".
5. Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen–Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. ISSN 1027-5606. (direct: Final Revised Paper)
6. NASA Earth Observations: Population Density”. NASA/SEDAC..
7. Map of Pulchra, NSW.