Cadarga is a rural

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in the

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, Australia. In the , Cadarga had a population of 28 people. Cadarga's postcode is 4413.

Geography

The locality is loosely bounded to the south by the

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with the locality being within the North East Coast drainage basin within the catchment of the

Burnett River The Burnett River is a river in the Wide Bay–Burnett and Central Queensland regions of Queensland, Australia. Course and features The Burnett River rises in the Burnett Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, close to Mount Gaeta and east ...

. Cadarga Creek rises in the south-west of the locality and then flows west and then north through the locality, exiting to the north ( Hawkwood). There are two sections of Allies Creek State Forest in the south-west and east of the locality, extending into neighbouring Boondooma. Apart from these protected areas, the land use is predominantly

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...

on native vegetation with some production forestry.

Demographics

In the , Cadarga had a population of 16 people. In the , Cadarga had a population of 28 people.

Education

There are no schools in Cadarga. The nearest government primary school is Monogoribly State School in neighbouring Monogorilby to the north-east, almost adjacent to the boundary with Cadarga. There are no secondary schools nearby; the alternatives are

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and boarding school.

References

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