Djabugay

Djabugay people
Aka: Tjapukai (Tindale), Djabuganjdji (Horton) Jaabugay (AIATSIS), Dyaabugay (SIL)
Wet Tropics Bioregion
Tjapukai performance in Cairns
Hierarchy
Language Family:	Pama–Nyungan
Language Branch:	Yidinic
Language Group:	Djabugay
Group Dialects:	Djabugay, Guluy Ngunbay, Bulway, Yirrgay
Area (approx. 800 km2)
BioRegion:	Wet Tropics
Location:	Far North Queensland
Coordinates:	16°50′S 145°30′E / 16.833°S 145.500°E / -16.833; 145.500
Mountains:	Black Mountain (also known as Bunda Gabagn)[1] Macalister Range (also known as Bunda Bundarra)[1] Lamb Range (also known as Bunda Djarruy Gimbul)[1]
Rivers	Barron River (also known as Bana Wuruu),[1] Mowbray River
Other Geological:	Barron Falls (also known as Din Din)[1] Barron Gorge (also known as Djirri Nyundu Nyrrumba)[1] Double Island (also known as Wangal Djungay[1])
Urban Areas	Cairns (also known as Ngunbay ),[1] Mount Molloy Port Douglas

The Djabugay people (also known as Djabuganydji or Tjapukai) are a group of Aboriginal Australian people who are the original inhabitants of mountains, gorges, lands and waters of a richly forested part of the Great Dividing Range including the Barron Gorge and surrounding areas within the Wet Tropics of Queensland.^[2]