Download coordinates as: Coombabah is a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

The suburb takes its name from Coombabah Lake and Coombabah Creek, which in turn are named using Bundjalung language, Ngaraangbal dialect words meaning place of the wood grubs, from the word goombo meaning teredo worm, which was a deliberately cultivated food source by the Indigenous people.

In JUly 1922 it closed due to low student number, but later that year re-opened as a full-time previsional school (having its own teacher).

The other top responses for country of birth were New Zealand 10.6%, England 8.8%, Scotland 1.2%, South Africa 1.1%, Philippines 1%.

87% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 0.5% Tagalog, 0.5% French, 0.5% Japanese, 0.5% Italian, 0.5% Mandarin.

There are ten kilometres worth of dirt tracks, gravel and boardwalks for access by the public.

[9][10] Guided bush walks day and night are run by the council's Natural Areas Management Unit.

[11] Three is a carpark on Rain Tree Glen for access to tracks.Griffith University's Healthy Rivers Institute conduct ongoing research in the area.

The threatened migratory eastern curlew rests at Coombabah on its way to Russia or north-eastern China breeding grounds.