Aputula

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Aputula is a remote Aboriginal community located on the South side of Alice Springs, 159 km East of the Stuart Highway, near the South Australia and Northern Territory borders.

Our community is also known as Finke, which is the whitefella name for the township where the community is now situated and also for the mighty river which our community sits besides.

The name Aputula comes from the water site near the community called 'Putula', which used to be the site of a water soakage.

Putula is an Arrernte word. Old Arrernte People used to get their water from there a long time ago, before the white people came. Before the railway line. The name of today's community Aputula, comes from that word. Anangu put the 'a' on the front to make it easier for the white men who couldn't say it the proper way.

There are two hundred and fifty people who live here in our community. We are Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara, Luritja and Lower Southern Arrernte people.