__NOTOC__ Parawa is a locality in the Australian state of

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ...

located about south of the state capital of

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and about south of the municipal seat in Yankalilla. Parawa consists of land on the ridge of the

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within the

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. Range Road (designated route B37), passes through the locality from east to west along the ridgeline. Parawa which is the Aboriginal name for the headland known as

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was approved by the state's Nomenclature Committee in 1948 in respect to section 332 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Waitpinga. Boundaries for the locality were created on 5 August 1999 for the "local established name". The majority of the land use within the locality is "primary production" while some land at its southern boundary has been given protected area status as the Waitpinga Conservation Park. The

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which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Parawa had 79 people living within its boundaries. Parawa is located within the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral district of

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and the local government area of the

District Council of Yankalilla The District Council of Yankalilla is a local government area centred on the town of Yankalilla on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. It was created on 23 October 1856, when the District Council of Yankalilla and Myponga was divided i ...

Climate

Parawa has been the site of an official weather station since 1994.

References

{{authority control Towns in South Australia Fleurieu Peninsula