Matuwa Indigenous Protected Area (90)

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Site name: Matuwa Indigenous Protected Area
Site number: 90
Point numbers: 357 (Matuwa Indigenous Protected Area Wet A), 358 (Matuwa Indigenous Protected Area Dry B), 359 (Matuwa Indigenous Protected Area Wet B), 360 (Matuwa Indigenous Protected Area Dry A)
Ecoregion: Deserts and xeric shrubland
Participant and site owner: Matuwa Piarku Aboriginal Corporation
Site location: Matuwa Indigenous Protected Area, Western Australia
Latitude: -26.138
Longitude: 121.352
Site description: Matuwa IPA covers 596,642 hectares of the Martu people’s Native Title land. Matuwa and Kurrara Kurrara are in the Murchison and Gascoyne bioregions on the southern edge of the Little Sandy Desert. Matuwa and Kurrara Kurrara are made up of yapu yapu (rocky country), rirrau (stony country), tali and parada (sand dune country) and jul jul (mulga forest).