Cocata is a rural locality in the Eyre and Western region of South Australia.

[5] A survey of the Cocata area in 1893 noted that "the land fit for agriculture was chiefly confined with a radius of one and a half miles of Mount Damper, Kolballa, Cocata, Ucontitchie and Pordia Hills, and consists of heavily-timbered mallee land with belts of pines, bushes and teatree, besides small grassy plans fringed with stunted wattle".

It also reported that a track had been established from the Cocata area to the port at Venus Bay.

[7][8][9] The name for the Hundred of Cocata, which was created on similar boundaries to the present locality, was approved by the Nomenclature Committee on 20 June 1928; it was surveyed into sections for pastoral selection soon after.

[4] Ucontitchie Hill, which lies towards the northern end of Cocata, is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register as a designated place of geological significance.