Djabugay estate is located in Far North Queensland (Australia). Djabugay authors, Rhonda Duffin and Rosetta Brim describe the boundaries of Djabugay country (bulimba) as follows:

"The Djabugay language was spoken over a wide area from Gimuy (Cairns) to Port Douglas and west towards Mareeba. The Djabugay estate extended to different groups of Bama (Aboriginal people), each speaking their own dialect of the Djabugay language"

Norman Tindale's (1974) Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal tribes identifies Djabugay (Tjapukai) country as follows:

"Barron River from south of Mareeba to Kuranda; north toward Port Douglas on the plateau south of and to the east of Mareeba; their western boundary followed the margin of the rain forest from Tolga north to Mount Molloy; ....."

The Djabugay Bama travelled extensively throughout the rainforest along well maintained paths known as 'walkpads', which made travel between the Atherton and Evelyn Tablelands and to the coast possible.

The estate is characterised by contrasting vegetation types and rainfail:the heavily rainforested tableland around and to the north of Kuranda and the more open sclerophyll country of the coast and lower slopes west of the  Macalister Range are the key features of the Djabugay estate.