Imanpa, Northern Territory
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Imanpa Community is in the Northern Territory
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...

 of Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It is seven km north of the Lasseter Highway
Lasseter Highway
Lasseter Highway is a fully sealed 244 kilometre highway in the Northern Territory of Australia. It connects Yulara, Kata Tjuta and Uluru east to the Stuart Highway...

, the main road running between the Stuart Highway
Stuart Highway
The Stuart Highway is one of Australia's major highways. It is a segment of Australia's Highway 1 extending from Darwin, Northern Territory, in the north, via Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, to Port Augusta, South Australia, in the south—a distance of...

 and Uluru
Uluru
Uluru , also known as Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia. It lies south west of the nearest large town, Alice Springs; by road. Kata Tjuta and Uluru are the two major features of the Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park....

 (Ayers Rock). Imanpa lies 160 km east of Uluru and 200 km south west of Alice Springs. It is seventeen kilometres from Mount Ebenezer Roadhouse which is owned and run by the community, along with Angas Downs Station / Indigenous Protected Area
Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area
Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area is an Indigenous-owned pastoral lease, within the MacDonnell Shire area, 300 km south-west of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, 135 km east from Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park , 100 km south-east of Kings Canyon/Watarrka National Park and...

.

Population

The population of Imanpa community is usually between 186 and 250 people.

The community is split into three camps, the bottom, the middle and the top camp. The bottom and the middle camps are for Anangu
Anangu
Anangu, more accurately "Aṉaŋu" or "Arnangu" is a word found in a number of eastern varieties of the Western Desert Language , an Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan family, spoken in the desert regions of western and central Australia. Before the arrival of non-Aboriginal people in...

;the white staff who work in the community live in the top camp.
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