Wurango
# Wurango

The Wurango or Wurrugu are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

## Country

The Wurango's tribal lands encompassed about 500 square miles (1,300 $km^2)$ around the western end of the Cobourg Peninsula including Port Essington.

## People

Crawford Pasco described the Wurango as he found them in 1838 as numerous, and of very good health since many reached the venerable age of 70.

## Social organisation

Norman Tindale speculated that mentions of the Tji and Jalo in this area clearly referring to the Wurango probably denoted hordes. If so, then he classified their respective localities as follows:

* Tji, a Wurango horde located at the western end of the Peninsula.
* Ja:loa Wurango horde in Port Essington.

The following clan marriage sections are said to have existed:

* Manderojelli
* Manburlgeat
* Mandrowilli

## Alternative names

* Auwulwarwak
* Ja:lo. (ja:lo = 'no')
* (?) Limba-Karadjee. (See Iwaidja)
* Wa:reidbug, Woreidbug
* Warooko
* Wurrunga, Wurrango
* Wuru:ku, U:ru:ku
* Yarlo

Source: Tindale 1974, p. 238

## Some words

* naween (father)
* noyoke (mother)

Source: Pasco 1886, p. 269

