Kuranda
Kuranda is a small town in Far North Queensland adjoining the Barron Gorge National Park. It's only around half an hour to drive from Cairns, and the scenic trip by train or SkyRail makes an extremely popular day trip.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kaz Ish, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: boblinsdell, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 2,460 residents
- Description: town in Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Kuranda, Queensland” and “Kuranda, Queensland, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Barron Falls and Rainforestation Nature Park.
Barron Falls
Waterfall
Barron Falls is a steep tiered cascade waterfall in Kuranda, Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. The falls are created by the Barron River descending from the Atherton Tablelands to the Cairns coastal plain.
Rainforestation Nature Park
Zoo
Rainforestation Nature Park is a tourist attraction near Kuranda in Far North Queensland, Australia. Set on 100 acres in the midst of World Heritage rainforest, the park opened in 1976.
Kuranda
- Category: locality
- Location: Mareeba, Far North Queensland, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-16.8194° or 16° 49′ 10″ southLongitude
145.6344° or 145° 38′ 4″ eastPopulation
2,460Elevation
357 metres (1,171 feet)Open location code
5RM75JJM+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 2060753757OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2160944Wikidata ID
Q451609
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Kuranda” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կուրանդա”
- Asturian: “Kuranda”
- Cebuano: “Kuranda (lungsod sa Awstralya)”
- Cebuano: “Kuranda”
- Chinese: “库兰达”
- Chinese: “庫蘭達”
- Dutch: “Kuranda”
- French: “Kuranda”
- German: “Kuranda”
- Italian: “Kuranda”
- Japanese: “キュランダ”
- Persian: “کوراندا، کوئینزلند”
- Persian: “کوراندا”
- Polish: “Kuranda (Australia)”
- Polish: “Kuranda”
- Russian: “Куранда”
- Spanish: “Kuranda”
- Swedish: “Kuranda (ort i Australien)”
- Swedish: “Kuranda”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kuranda”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kuranda”. Photo: boblinsdell, CC BY 2.0.