Caravonica is a

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Cairns Cairns (, ) is a city in Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland. The population in June 2019 was 153,952, having grown on average 1.02% annually over the preceding five years. The city is the 5th-most-p ...

in the

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, Australia. In the , Caravonica had a population of 1,989 people. Caranovica is approximately from the Cairns city centre.

Geography

Caravonica lies in the foothills of the

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. The actual village itself is in length from its most northern point to its most southern point. The boundary of the suburb can be found as far north as the

Tjapukai The Djabugay people (also known as Djabuganydji or Tjapukai) are a group of Australian Aboriginal people who are the original inhabitants of mountains, gorges, lands and waters of a richly forested part of the Great Dividing Range including th ...

Aboriginal Cultural Park and the

Skyrail Rainforest Cableway Skyrail Rainforest Cableway is a scenic tourist cableway running above the Barron Gorge National Park, in the Wet Tropics of Queensland’s World Heritage Area in Australia. It operates from the Smithfield terminal () in Cairns to the ...

's southern terminal is known as the Caravonica Terminal. The southern border is bounded by Kamerunga, aligning with the Barron River

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along the Kamerunga section of the northern bank of the river. Lake Placid is a neighbourhood within the locality. Formerly known as Barron Waters, it is named after a natural pond in the Barron River, created by a rock barrage. Lake Placid is the entrance to the

Barron Gorge National Park Barron Gorge National Park is a protected area in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. It is predominantly within the locality of Barron Gorge. Geography The park is 1,404 km northwest of Brisbane and from Kuranda. Barron Gorge ...

. A supplementary section of Lake Placid Road leads to Kamerunga Conservation Park and Kamerunga Crossing, a ford across the Barron River. It is the location of an old bridge (no longer for use by vehicles).

Maps

Caravonica - Map.png, Map of Caravonica Caravonica - Cairns - Map.png, Map of Caravonica in the Region of Cairns

History

Caravonica is situated in the Djabugay (Tjapukai) traditional

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country. The

Yirrganydji The Yirrganydji (Irrukandji) people are an Indigenous Australian people of Queensland who trace their descent from the ''Irukandji'' and, as such, are the original custodians of a narrow coastal strip within Djabugay country that runs northward ...

people are custodians within the Djabugay traditional country The origin of the suburb name is from the town of

Caravonica Caravonica ( lij, Caironega) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Imperia in the Italian region Liguria, located about southwest of Genoa and about northwest of Imperia. Caravonica borders the following municipalities: Borgomaro, ...

in Italy, named in the 1880s after the hometown of

David Thomatis David Thomatis (2 August 1851 – 14 December 1919) was an Italian born educator and agriculturalist. At the turn of the 19th to 20th century he developed in a plantation in today's Caravonica near Cairns in north-eastern Australia a strain ...

. Caravonica was originally part of the Shire of Mulgrave and then the

City of Cairns The City of Cairns was a local government area centred on the Far North Queensland city of Cairns. Established in 1885, for most of its existence it consisted of approximately around Cairns itself, with much of the metropolitan area being loc ...

local government areas. Kamerunga State School opened on 28 May 1913. It was wrecked in a cyclone in February 1927. On 6 April 1927 it reopened at a new location as Caravonica State School. The decision to relocate the school had been taken prior to the cyclone. Lake Placid was originally called Barron Waters but was renamed in 1969. It is named after a natural pond in the Barron River, created by a rock barrage. In the , Caravonica had a population of 1,989 people.

Community groups

The Smithfield branch of the

Queensland Country Women's Association The Queensland Country Women's Association (QCWA) is the Queensland chapter of the Country Women's Association in Australia. The association seeks to serve the interests of women and children in rural areas in Australia through a network of loca ...

meets at the CWA Hall on Kamerunga Road, Caravonica. It is between the Caravonica State School and the

Australian Armour and Artillery Museum The Australian Armour and Artillery Museum is a privately owned museum dedicated to tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery from the Second World War and post war periods. It was officially opened in 2014, in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Th ...

Images

Looking north along Aroona Street, Caravonica, 2018.jpg, Aarona Street – a typical street Looking north-west over Caravonica from Kawana Street, 2018.jpg, View cross suburbia from Kwana Street Looking south-east down Kawana Street, Caravonica, 2018.jpg, Kwana Street Looking west from Aroona Street, Caravonica, towards Red Bluff in the distance, 2018.jpg, Suburban landscape with ''Red Peak''

References

External links

Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park
{{Cairns Region Suburbs of Cairns