Guruça

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Guruça
The Suco Guruça is located in the northeast of the Quelicai administrative office. The place Guruça is located in the northwest of the Sucos.
Data
surface 16.71 km²
population 1,520  (2015)
Chefe de Suco Filomeno Mendonça
(election 2016)
Aldeias Population  (2015)
Eu-Afa 176
Fae-Ua 238
Laculela 261
Saebere 569
Uadaboru 276
Guruça (East Timor)
Guruça
Guruça
Coordinates: 8 ° 33 '  S , 126 ° 34'  E

Guruça ( Guruca , Gurusa ) is an East Timorese place and Suco in the administrative office of Quelicai ( municipality of Baucau ).

The place

The place Guruça is located in the northwest of the Sucos, at an altitude of 275  m and consists of the districts Cotaissi and Telama . Guruça is located on the country road that connects Baguia with the northern coastal road. There is a primary school here.

The Suco

Guruça
places position height
Cotaissi 8 ° 32 '  S , 126 ° 34'  E 249  m
Culugia 8 ° 35 '  S , 126 ° 36'  E 759  m
Daraloi 8 ° 36 '  S , 126 ° 37'  E 1495  m
Facua 8 ° 35 '  S , 126 ° 36'  E 841  m
Gugulai 8 ° 35 '  S , 126 ° 36'  E 759  m
Guruça 8 ° 33 '  S , 126 ° 34'  E 275  m
Maebu 8 ° 32 '  S , 126 ° 35'  E 198  m
Maukiki 8 ° 35 '  S , 126 ° 36'  E 950  m
Saebere 8 ° 34 '  S , 126 ° 36'  E ?
Telama 8 ° 33 '  S , 126 ° 34'  E 275  m
Uadaboru 8 ° 36 '  S , 126 ° 37'  E 1340  m
Ucamuni 8 ° 33 '  S , 126 ° 35'  E 412  m
Uehuafa 8 ° 34 '  S , 126 ° 37'  E 844  m

1520 inhabitants (2015) live in Guruça, of which 724 are men and 796 women. The population density is 91.0 inhabitants / km². There are 315 households in the Suco. Over 95% of the population name Makasae as their mother tongue. Minorities speak the Makasae dialect Sa'ane or Tetum Prasa .

Before the 2015 territorial reform, Guruça had an area of ​​27.33 km². Now there are 16.71 km². The Suco is located in the northeast of the Quelicai administrative office. To the northeast are the Sucos Afaçá and Namanei , to the southwest the Sucos Macalaco , Baguia , Abafala and Uaitame . In the northwest, Guruça borders the Laga administrative office with its Suco Tequinaumata and the Baucau administrative office with its Suco Seiçal . The Borauai River forms the border with Seiçal . In the southeast lies the administrative office of Baguia with its sucos Samalari and Hae Coni . To the north of Guruça, near the village of Ucamuni, the Otorocaiboro and Maucolo rivers flow into the Uaimuhi , which later forms part of the border with Afaçá. The Lianau rises to the west of Uaimuhi . The village of Maebu lies on its banks .

A little south of the village of Guruça, the village of Abafala extends from the Suco of the same name into the Suco Guruça. The village of Uehuafa is located in Guruça on the southern border of Afaçá . In the south, on the border with Uaitame, are the places Culugia ( Culuguia ), Gugulai ( Gugolai ), Saebere , Facua , Maukiki , Uadaboru ( Uadaboro ) and Daraloi . There are primary schools in Uehuafa and Culugia (Escola Primaria Catolica Culuguia).

The five Aldeias Eu-Afa , Fae-Ua , Laculela , Saebere and Uadaboru are located in the Suco .

history

In 1977 the residents of Guruça fled from the Indonesian invaders to the Matebian . There they settled in a resistance base ( base de apoio ). In October 1978, the Indonesian attacks on the base began. Up to 800 people died in Guruça alone as a result of heavy bombing from the air. On November 22nd, the FALINTIL was overrun by the invaders. You can still visit caves that were used by the resistance fighters as refuge.

As early as May 1978, 500 residents of Guruça had surrendered after they had returned from Matebian. Although many were ill and weak, men were forced to work for the Indonesian army or the Hansip or had to serve as TBOs ( Tenaga Bantuan Operasi , surgical assistants). Women were obliged to watch over night. TBOs had to accompany the troops to the front lines and carry ammunition and equipment. At times they also served as scouts and guides, sometimes also as spies in the zones held by the FALINTIL.

At the end of 1979 there was an Indonesian camp in Guruça for East Timorese, who were to be relocated by the occupiers for better control. Sucos residents were forcibly relocated to Mulia (Laga administrative office). It was feared that the villages that were close to the forests could support the FALINTIL. The old houses were burned down after the evacuation, fields were destroyed and the cattle were killed. Several residents were injured. The inhabitants were brought to Mulia on trucks under heavy guard.

The pro-Indonesian Team Saka militia burned down several houses in Guruça on September 8, 1999, during Operation Donner , and killed the cattle. On September 9th, a youth was killed by them.

politics

In the elections of 2004/2005 was Luís da Costa Gaio elected Chefe de Suco and in 2009 re-elected. In the elections in 2016 won Filomeno Mendonça .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, August 2008 ( Memento from December 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 499 kB)
  3. ↑ Fallingrain.com: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in East Timor
  4. ↑ Results of the 2010 census for the Suco Guruça ( tetum ; PDF; 8.6 MB)
  5. ↑ Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Population Distribution by Administrative Areas Volume 2 English ( Memento from January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Census 2010; PDF; 22.6 MB)
  6. ↑ a b Timor-Leste GIS Portal ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ List of polling stations for the parliamentary elections in East Timor 2007 (PDF file; 118 kB)
  8. ↑ Jornal da Républica with the Diploma Ministerial n. 199/09 ( Memento of February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese; PDF; 323 kB)
  9. ↑ a b c d "Chapter 7.3: Forced Displacement and Famine" ( Memento from November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.3 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  10. ↑ a b "Chapter: Violations of the Laws of War" ( Memento from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 534 kB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  11. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2004/2005 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2009 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Jornal da República: Lista Naran Xefe Suku Eleito 2016 , December 2, 2016 , accessed on June 17, 2020.

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