title: Tjuroro people
text: # Tjuroro people
  
  The Tjuroro, also known as the Jurruru, were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
  
  ## Name
  
  The Tjuroro ethnonym appears to have meant 'lowlanders', in opposition to the Kurama (uplanders).
  
  ## Language
  
  The Tjuroro spoke Jurruru.
  
  ## Country
  
  2,200 square miles (5,700 $km^2)$ along and southeast of the Ashburton River from Kooline to Ashburton Downs and Turee Creek junction. Their northern extension went as far as the slopes overlooking the Pilbara's Hardey River. They also hunted as far north and south as the headwaters of the creeks in the Kenneth and Capricorn Ranges.
  
  ## Alternative names
  
  * Churoro, Choororo, Chooraroo
  * Djururo
  * Tjororo, Tjururu, Tjururo
  
  Source: Tindale 1974, p. 257
  
  