Land is the most valuable natural resource for humankind. Over the decades, many factors, such as lack of land policy, weak legal frameworks and institutions, tenure insecurity, and mismanagement of land, have contributed to the depletion of natural resources in developing countries. In Ethiopia, as part of the national effort to ensure land tenure security and improve natural resources management, the government has implemented rural land registration and cadaster program and issued second-level land certificates for landholders. In the land administration process of the Amhara region of Ethiopia, legislation gaps to address cadastral issues, organizational capacity gaps, participation, cadastral data management, and problems of tenure insecurity in peri urban areas that challenged land governance are the main problems. The objective of this study was, therefore, to examine the rural cadastral practice and its contributions to good land governance in the Amhara region, Ethiopia. A mixed research method was employed, and data were secured from pertinent participants from all segments of stakeholders, landholders, and land experts working from the regional bureau down to grass root level. The study also reviewed the literature to design an evaluation framework to assess the quality of the rural cadastral system of the region. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings indicated that the framework developed for the quality assessment was found to be an essential tool to evaluate the performance of rural cadastral practices. The study revealed that the rural land cadastral practice and its contribution to good land governance prevailed in multiple results. The study identified the strengths and gaps of the rural land cadastral system of the region, which underpinned the understanding of institutional and technical arrangements and statuses at the policy, management, and operational level. To address the gaps in cadastral practices in the region, this study suggested undertaking actions leading to land policy revision, carrying out structural rearrangement, spatial and legal framework formulation, and capacity building in technical, institutional, and material aspects at operational levels of land administration institutions. These interventions need government commitment, political will and active support from non-government organizations.