Porcupine Gorge National Park is a national park in North West Queensland, Australia, 1,174 km northwest of Brisbane and 60 km north of Hughenden. Established in 1970, the national park has an area of 54.10 km² and is managed by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. It is an IUCN category II park.
The national park was established at the region of the Porcupine Gorge, that features strata of sedimentary rocks which span hundreds of millions of years.
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