Takalarup, Western Australia


Takalarup is a locality of the Shire of Plantagenet in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. The Stirling Range National Park forms its northern border and the Kalgan River runs through the south-west of the locality. The Chillinup Nature Reserve is located within Takalarup, as is a small section of the South Stirling Nature Reserve.
It lies to the East of the Porongurup Range and South of the Stirling Range, being east of the town of Mount Barker, and north-northeast of Albany. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 127.

Nature reserve

The Chillinup Nature Reserve is fully located within Takalarup and was gazetted on 31 July 1959, has a size of, and is located within the Esperance Plains bioregion.