Dederang is a town in north east Victoria. The town is located on the Kiewa Valley Highway

Kiewa Valley Highway

Kiewa Valley Highway traverses alpine regions of Victoria, Australia for a distance of . In the 1950s the road was sealed and realigned to Mount Beauty to permit the transport of materials for the construction of the Kiewa Hydroelectric Scheme...

, in the Alpine Shire

Alpine Shire

Alpine Shire is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. It is located in the north-eastern part of the state. It includes the towns of Bright, Mount Beauty and Myrtleford. It has an area of 4,885 square kilometres. In 2001 it had a population of 17,581 and still growing. There are two...

 Local Government Areas of Australia, 329 kilometres from the state capital, Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

. Dederang is located in the Kiewa River

Kiewa River

The Kiewa River is a major tributary of the Murray River in Australia.The river's headwaters include Victoria's highest mountain, Mount Bogong, and wind their way north-west about 100 kilometres, gradually slowing before joining the Murray east of Albury....

 valley. At the 2006 census

Census in Australia

The Australian census is administered once every five years by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The most recent census was conducted on 9 August 2011; the next will be conducted in 2016. Prior to the introduction of regular censuses in 1961, they had also been run in 1901, 1911, 1921, 1933,...

, Dederang and the surrounding area had a population of 422.

Dederang Post Office opened on 1 September 1877 and closed in 1977.

The town is a popular trout

Trout

Trout is the name for a number of species of freshwater and saltwater fish belonging to the Salmoninae subfamily of the family Salmonidae. Salmon belong to the same family as trout. Most salmon species spend almost all their lives in salt water...

 fishing centre and holds a New Year's Day race

Horseracing in Australia

Thoroughbred horseracing is an important spectator sport in Australia, and gambling on horseraces is a popular pastime with A$14.3 billion wagered in 2009/10 with bookmakers and the Totalisator Agency Board . The two forms of Thoroughbred horseracing in Australia are flat racing, and races over...

 meeting as well as the annual gumboot throwing championships.

The town in conjunction with neighbouring township Mount Beauty

Mount Beauty, Victoria

Mount Beauty is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is in the Alpine Shire local government area.The town was originally established by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria to house construction workers from the Kiewa Hydroelectric Scheme in 1949, passing to the control of the local shire...

 has an Australian Rules football team Dederang-Mount Beauty competing in the Tallangatta & District Football League

Tallangatta & District Football League

The Tallangatta and District Football League is an Australian rules football competition in north-east Victoria and the southern/border region of the New South Wales Riverina...

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Dederang has a picnic horse racing club

Picnic horse racing

Picnic horse racing, or more usually picnic races or more colloquially "the picnics" refer to amateur Thoroughbred horse racing meetings, predominantly in Australia. The meetings are organized by amateur clubs, the jockeys are amateur riders, or sometimes former professional jockeys...

, the Dederang Picnic Race Club, which holds its one race meeting a year with the Dederang Cup in January.

Golfers play at the Dederang Golf Club on the Kiewa Valley Highway.