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The Barkly Highway enters the locality from the south (Barkly), passes from east to west through the town centre (where it is known as Barkly Street) and then exits to the west (Northern Territory). Lake Mary is another lake on the river north west of town. The locality is a drainage divide running from the north west to the south east of the locality. The watercourses in the north and east of the locality are tributaries of the Nicholson River which flows into the Gulf of Carpentaria to the north. Gulf drainage Whereas the watercourses in the south and west of the locality are tributaries of the Georgina River which is part of the Lake Eyre drainage basin. Quality Knobs

The Camooweal Caves National Park is a protected area in the south west of the locality to the south east of the town. Crater of Caves is an area within the park. Cavern is another area with caves but outside of the national park
Apart from the national park, the predominant land use in the locality is grazing on native vegetation. William Landsborough in 1861 named the Barkly Tablelands after the Governor of Victoria, His Excellency, Sir Henry Barkly. He also named Lake Francis after his niece Frances Landsborough. The first Britisher to attempt to colonise the area was George Sutherland, who took up the Rocklands lease in 1865. Sutherland arrived at Lake Mary on the Georgina River with 8,000 sheep, which caused the Aboriginal people, who were sleeping at time, to run. Sutherland was attacked by them on several occasions in the following months. When fellow colonists William Lyne and Henry Steiglitz arrived on the river, Sutherland "deemed it fully time to make a raid and drive them [the Aboriginal people] back." One of the group fired a shot, hitting a group of boomerangs which scared the Aboriginal people into fleeing. Stock losses to the local dingos and wedge tailed eagles; lack of water and isolation soon forced him to abandon his lease. The Englishmen Benjamin Crosthwaite and William Tetley, who were marginally more successful, took up the lease again in 1876. The origin of the town's name is uncertain. One theory is that it take its name from surveyor George Telford Weale, who surveyed the area using camels in the early 1880s. Another theory is that it is an Aboriginal word meaning strong wind. A police station opened in 1886. Camooweal Provisional School opened on 5 June 1893. On 1 Jan 1909 it became Camooweal State School. The town bore was drilled in 1897. On 2 January 1931, a Qantas Air Ambulance from the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia flown by E. G. Donaldson rescued a man in Camooweal and delivered him to Brisbane. The road through Camooweal to the Northern Territory (now the Barkly Highway) was the inland defence route for World War II. This road was built by army engineers and carried over 1000 vehicles a day and there are numerous historical sites marked along the road. The town had electricity from 1952. St Therese's Catholic Church was officially opened on 30 April 1961 by Hugh Edward Ryan, Bishop of Townsville. The Camooweal Caves National Park was gazetted on 16 December 1994. In 2005 the Mount Isa City Council erected a war memorial outside the community hall (former shire hall of the Shire of Barkly Tableland). At the , the locality of Camooweal had a population of 187. At the , it had a population of 208, and at the , it had a population of 236.

Camooweal State School is a government primary (Early Childhood to Year 6) school for boys and girls at Nowranie Street In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 31 students with 3 teachers and 5 non teaching staff (3 full time equivalent). There are no secondary schools within reach of the locality (the nearest is Spinifex State College in Mount Isa). The options are distance education and boarding school. Spinifex State College has boarding facilities.

The Drover's Camp Festival is held annually in August. It was not held in 2020 due to the COVID 19 pandemic.