Biamanga Cultural area

Biamanga National Park conserves an important area of substantially pristine coastal foothill environments, with monkey and ribbon gums clustered around the creekbeds. It also contains the endangered chefs cap correa, an unusual lemon and green flower that looks exactly like its namesake. The shrubs are endemic to NSW and popular with local birds. The park is also home to an array of wildlife, from goannas and eastern water dragons to swamp wallabies and some of the last remaining koalas in the south-eastern corner of NSW. Birds are also plentiful, including lyrebirds, azure kingfishers, flycatchers and blue wrens.

Biamanga (also known as Mumbulla Mountain) rises in the middle of Biamanga National Park, and is largely the legacy of an ancient shield volcano. You can see this most clearly through a granitic creek corridor with massive boulders and plunge pools. This is the course of Mumbulla Creek, which rushes toward the coast from its origins up in the mountain. This park conserves an important area of substantially pristine coastal foothill environments, with monkey and ribbon gums clustered around the creekbeds. It also contains the endangered chefs cap correa, an unusual lemon and green flower that looks exactly like its namesake. The shrubs are endemic to NSW and popular with local birds.

The landscape of Biamanga National Park is sacred to the Yuin People, ancient custodians of this land, who maintain their strong traditional ties to it today. In 2006, the park became jointly managed by the Aboriginal community and NPWS. There are a number of cultural sites throughout the area with spiritual significance for the Yuin. The best place to learn about these is Mumbulla Creek Falls, where interpretative signs detail the Aboriginal history of the region.