The Darling Downs (" hills of Darling") form a vast agricultural area on the western slope of the Great Dividing Range in the south-east of the Queensland in Australia.

The area was called thus by the explorer Allan Cunningham who gave him the name of the governor Ralph Darling.

The landscape is made mainly of covered hills moutonnantes of cereal, cotton, vegetable fields (corn, barley, sorghum). Between these farms of the roads which intersect, of the hedges, the rivers which curve and the great quantities of herds: bovines for the meat and milk, sheep for the meat and the wool, porcine. With all that a system of irrigation with wind mills which pump the water of the Grand Artesian basin, of the small planes treating the fields, old sheep-folds spirit to rust….

The main city of the area is Toowoomba to approximately 140 km in the west of Brisbane. The other cities of the area are Dalby, Warwick, Roma, Oakey, Mitchell, Pittsworth, Allora, Clifton, Cecil Plains, Drayton, Millmerran, Nobby and Chinchilla in the west.

The area is located on the basins of the Condamine River and Maranoa River.

In the north of the area the Montagnes Bunya and the national park of the " are; Bunya Mountains National Park". In the west, the hills recover part of the coal mines of the Surat Basin. In the south rock formations of the Granite Belt and the rivers Dumaresq and MacIntyre. In the east, mountains of the Scenic Rim where Condamine River takes its source.

Before the arrival of Europeans, this area was covered with vast quite green meadows eight months per annum which were used to nourish many animals then the grass dried during the season dries and the aboriginals burned this grass before the new arrival of the rains.