[1] Norman Tindale estimated the Matuntara tribal lands to cover approximately 14,000 square miles (36,000 km2).
Their eastern extension ran over to Erldunda, while their westerly boundary lay at Curtin Springs.
Their lands extended across what is now the state border, into South Australia.
Their neighbours to the northwest were the Gugadja, with whom they are sometimes confused, being considered by some early explorers to have been a southern horde of the latter.
[2] Some time around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Matuntara absorbed a branch of the Pitjantjatjara known as the Maiulatara clan, when the latter migrated eastwards to Tempe Downs from their grounds that lay to the north of the Petermann Range.