| has gloss | eng: The Colo River is a river in New South Wales, Australia. The Colo River begins at the confluence of the Wolgan River and the Capertee River, which respectively drain the Wolgan and Capertee Vallies north of Lithgow. The river flows eastwards and then south through a deep gorge in the northern section of the Blue Mountains. The majority of the river lies in Wollemi National Park. The middle Colo is so inaccessible, rugged and remote that it supposedly was not traversed until the Leyland Brothers expedition in about 1970. The wilderness was saved from development, logging and damming in the late 1970s by the Colo Wilderness Preservation Society and other environmentalists. The Blue Mountains NP area, including the Wollemi NP, has received World Heritage listing, due in part to the discovery of the Wollemi Pine, often described as a living fossil' from the age of the dinosaurs. |
