Cooroibah is a
locality
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* Locality (linguistics)
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in the
Shire of Noosa
The Shire of Noosa () is a Local government in Australia, local government area about north of Brisbane in the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sunshine Coast district of South East Queensland, Australia. The shire covers an area of . It existed as ...
,
Queensland
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, Australia.
In the , Cooroibah had a population of 2,178 people.
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Geography
A section of the Great Sandy National Park has been established in the north of Cooroibah. The Noosa River
The Noosa River is a river situated in South East Queensland. The catchment starts in the Como Escarpment near Mount Elliott in the coastal Great Sandy National Park and meanders south through a lakes district around Tewantin.
Lakes situated o ...
marks part of the northeast boundary and the whole of Lake Cooroibah is part of the suburb. The southern boundary continues along part of Cooroibah Creek.
History
The name is Aboriginal for "place of possums
Possum may refer to:
Animals
* Didelphimorphia, or (o)possums, an order of marsupials native to the Americas
** Didelphis, a genus of marsupials within Didelphimorphia
*** Common opossum, native to Central and South America
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".
From 2008 to 2013, Cooroibah was within the Sunshine Coast Region
The Sunshine Coast Region is a local government area located in the Sunshine Coast region of South East Queensland, Australia, from which it takes its name.
It was created by the amalgamation in 2008 of the City of Caloundra and the Shires o ...
due to the amalgamation and then de-amalgamation of the Shire of Noosa into the Sunshine Coast Region.
Demographics
In the , Cooroibah had a population of 1,744 people.
Education
There are no schools in Cooroibah. The nearest government primary school is Tewantin State School in neighbouring Tewantin
Tewantin ( ) is a town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Shire of Noosa, Queensland, Australia. Tewantin was the original settlement in the Noosa region and is one of its three major centres today. In the , the locality of T ...
to the south. The nearest government secondary school is Sunshine Beach State High School in Sunshine Beach to the south-east.
References
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{{Noosa Shire
Suburbs of Noosa Shire, Queensland
Localities in Queensland