Walubarra
Walubarra is the name for the local Aboriginal Australian group whom are particularly associated with, and belong to, the foothills and hillslopes beneath those Wet Tropical mountains that encircle and face, from the west, north west, and north, into the Trinity inlet, being country into which the city of Cairns, has been built
Local Group
A small number of local Yidiɲ language speakers taught the linguist Robert M. W. Dixon that the Cairns and surrounding region's original people can be identified as members of one or other local groups whom have been named after the territory to which they belong, that is local groups whom have been named by attaching the affix bara to a noun for that terrain to which they are particularly associated via conception, life history and more.The Walubarra, for instance, had been named in Yidiɲ by predecessors affixing barra to the noun walu to identify them as those persons 'belonging to' the 'foothills', away from the main rivers. Other neighbouring Yidiɲ local groupsinclude:
- the Malanbarra for the freshwater upper reaches of the Mulgrave River to the south of the Walubarra, where the river flows across worn, flat rocks
- the Gulgibarra for the lower sandy saltwater reaches of the Mulgrave River, further south of the Walubarra
- the Bundabarra for the mountains and mountain ranges to the immediate west and behind the Walubarra
- the Wadjanbarra aka Warginbara for the forested areas over the mountains