Monarto, South Australia
| Monarto South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 35°04′54″S 139°07′48″E / 35.08179°S 139.129879°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 203 (SAL 2021) | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1908 16 March 2003 (locality) | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5254 | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | ACDT (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 63 km (39 mi) from Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Rural City of Murray Bridge | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Murray and Mallee | ||||||||||||||
| County | Sturt | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Kavel | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Barker | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities | ||||||||||||||
Monarto is a locality in South Australia 16 km (9.9 mi) west of the Murray River. It is north of the South Eastern Freeway between the Callington and Murray Bridge exits 63 km from Adelaide.
Most of the residents of Monarto run small hobby-like farms, raising cows, sheep and horses. Crops in the area include wheat, oats and barley.
In the 1970s Monarto was proposed to be the site of a new satellite city of Adelaide originally known as "New Murray Town". By the turn of the century the proposal had been completely abandoned.