Download coordinates as: Kuranda is a rural town and locality on the Atherton Tableland in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia.

[4] Kuranda is positioned on the eastern edge of the Atherton Tableland where the Barron River begins a steep descent to its coastal floodplain.

Closer to the centre of the town is Jumrum Creek Conservation Park where a near threatened, endemic frog species Ranoidea myola is protected.

[6] An elongated dam created by a weir built for a power station was constructed in 1935 and is used to today for recreation.

[8] The name Kuranda is derived from Yindinji word, kuran referring to the acorn leafed plant (Helmholtzia acorifolia).

[9] Djabugay (also known as Djabuganjdji, Tjupakai) is a language of Far North Queensland, particularly the area around the Kuranda Range and Barron River Catchment.

[20] Between 1912 and 1913 Eric Mjöberg lead an expedition to Queensland in which the Kuranda Aboriginal people were observed.

[21] Although coffee was grown around Kuranda in the early twentieth century, timber was the town's primary industry for a number of years.

[21] Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Kuranda was popular with alternative lifestylers,[21] a theme that still runs through the local community today.

[32][33][34] In recent times, Kuranda remains a sleepy little tourist town, renowned for its arts and souvenir shops.

[46] The nocturnal frog species Litoria myola is only found in the vicinity of a few creeks near Kuranda.

[48] The area boasts a rich diversity of invertebrate fauna including Australia's largest species of mantids, phasmids, spiders, moths and butterflies all found in Kuranda.

Kuranda is often referred to the "air conditioned suburb of Cairns" and the rain-forest and elevation is responsible in part for these perceptions.

Winter maximums (June to August) are typically a consistent 25 °C; however, minimums can drop to 8 °C, owing to clear skies at this time of year and cooler air movements originating from the southern Atherton Tablelands.

Kuranda is located in the (federal) Australian House of Representatives Division of Leichhardt, the Legislative Assembly of Queensland Electoral district of Barron River and locally, in the Shire of Mareeba.

The Skyrail Rainforest Cableway is a 7.5-kilometre (4.7 mi) scenic tourist cableway running above the Barron Gorge National Park in the Wet Tropics of Queensland’s World Heritage Area, one of the oldest tropical rainforests in the world.

In the northern part of Kuranda close to Therwine Street a Japanese plane wreck can be seen in the bushes.

[citation needed] The Kuranda Koala Garden is a small local wildlife park which keeprs koalas, wombats, kangaroos, wallabies, pademelons, bettongs, potoroos, bilbies, bandicoots, possums, gliders, frogmouth owls, freshwater crocodiles, lizards, pythons, turtles and frogs.