Manunda, Queensland

Manunda is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In , the population of Manunda was 5,390.
Geography.
Manunda is a flat suburb (0–10 metres above sea level). The southern part of Manunda is residential while the northern part contains a number of community amenities including sportsgrounds and the Cairns Cemetery (also known as Martyn Street Cemetery). In-between is a commercial/industrial estate flanking Anderson Street.
History.
Manunda is situated in the Yidinji traditional Aboriginal country. 
On 11 January 1939 at the Lands Office in Cairns the Queensland Government auctioned 11 town lots of between between Little Street and the cemetery.
Manunda was named by Queensland Place Names Board on 1 September 1973 after TSMV Manunda of the Adelaide Steamship Company which regularly visited Cairns. In 1975 the neighbouring suburb of Manoora was named for Manunda's sister ship HMAS Manoora. The ship was named after an Aboriginal word meaning "place near water".
Manunda is home to many schools. The Cairns Seventh Day Adventist School opened on 6 February 1950. Trinity Bay State High School opened on 25 January 1960. Cairns West State School opened on 28 January 1964. St Francis Xavier's School opened on 23 January 1967.
Manunda Library opened in 1991 and underwent a major refurbishment in 2007.
Cairns School of Distance Education opened 20 July 1974. Emmanuel College opened in Manunda on 29 January 1986. On 4 February 1991 Trinity Bay Centre for Continuing Secondary Education was established, conducting night classes at Trinity Bay State High School.
In 2002 Emmanuel College closed and became Djarragun College, a school committed to improving the educational outcomes of Indigenous students in the Cape York area.
Amenities.
Cairns Regional Council operates a library service in Manunda, located in the Raintrees shopping Centre.
St Francis Xavier Catholic Church is on the corner of Atkinson and Mayer Streets. It is within the Cairns West Parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cairns.