Hundred of Munno Para

The Hundred of Munno Para is a cadastral unit of hundred covering the outer northern suburbs of Adelaide north of the Little Para River and the flanking semi-rural areas in South Australia.

[2] It was named in 1846 by Governor Frederick Robe, Munno Para being a term from a local Kaurna Aboriginal people meaning golden wattle creek.

The remainder of the council of Munno Para West was abolished in the same year, with part going to the Gawler municipality, part to the new District Council of Salisbury and the remainder merging with Munno Para East council to form the new District Council of Munno Para, extending across the entire hundred from west to east with the exception of Salisbury encroaching in the southwest corner and Gawler occupying the north eastern corner.

The Munno Para council was based at Smithfield in the centre of the hundred and directly beside the main road north.

The local government areas whose boundaries cross into the hundred, as of 2017[update], are thus the City of Playford across most of the hundred, the City of Salisbury occupying the south west corner including the RAAF Edinburgh and accompanying Department of Defence precinct, and the Town of Gawler occupying the north east corner surrounding the Gawler township at the confluence of North Para and South Para rivers.

Cadastral map from 1964