Towitta is a locality in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia at the foot of the eastern side of the Mount Lofty Ranges.

It is a rural community dominated by growing cereal grain crops.

[3] The town was surveyed by H.C. Talbot in March 1876, and the Towitta public school was open from 1880 to 1942.

[4] The murder of Bertha Schippan in January 1902 occurred on a farm to the north of the township of Towitta.

[5] In 1984, the ABC produced a television film titled The Schippan Mystery covering the case.