Capalaba

Capalaba is a suburb in Redland City, Queensland, Australia. The rural area has substantial shopping and business focuses with two shopping centers and a noteworthy transport station, and also light mechanical zones encompassed by bushland and private avenues, making it the second most crowded suburb in the Redlands. Surrounding rural areas incorporate Alexandra Hills, Birkdale, and Sheldon, likewise in Redland City, alongside Burbank and Chandler and some time ago Capalaba West, which exist in Brisbane.

Tingalpa Creek denotes the outskirt between Capalaba in the east and the City of Brisbane in the west, making the suburb a passage to the beach front Redlands area for urban Brisbanites. The name of Capalaba is accepted to be gotten from the Indigenous Yugarabul word for the ringtail possum, a marsupial local to the area. European settlement started during the 1850s, driven by ranchers, loggers, and sawmill operators. The locale before long wound up imperative in the overland exchange connect between the settlements of Brisbane and Cleveland.

Intersections and scaffolds over Tingalpa Creek were built up to encourage such transport. The rural area developed into the twentieth century, turning into a noteworthy wellspring of freshwater for the then Redland Shire during the 1960s, because of the development of the Leslie Harrison Dam. This incited further populace development, and the presentation of business and modern territories still present today.