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Erringibba National Park

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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:Infobox Australian place Erringibba is a national park at Glenmorgan in the far west of the Darling Downs region of southern Queensland, Australia, 329 km west of Brisbane. The park was established in 1999 and covers Template:Convert.<ref name="manstat"/> The park lies within the catchment area of the Condamine River and the Brigalow Belt South bioregion.<ref name="wetlandinfo">Template:Cite web</ref>

The landscape is flat and vegetated with open-forest dominated by brigalow and belah species common in the area.<ref name="manstat"/> The park's main aim is to preserve two endangered ecosystems which have been mostly cleared for agriculture.<ref name="manstat"/> These include an shrubby open forest dominated by Acacia harpophylla and/or Casuarina cristata on Cainozoic clay plains and open forest to woodland of Eucalyptus populnea with Acacia harpophylla and/or Casuarina cristata on Cainozoic clay plains.<ref name="manstat"/>

A total of four rare of threatened species have been identified in Erringibba.<ref name="wetlandinfo"/>

The average elevation of the terrain is 294 metres.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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