Mainina hole

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Mainina Hole (East Timor)
Mainina hole
Mainina hole
The Mainina Hole is in the east of the island of Timor
The Mainina Ponor in April 2003, when the river had little water

The Mainina Hole is a ponor in Suco Muapitine ( Lospalos administrative office , Lautém municipality ) in East Timor . The 3.5 km long Irasiquero , a river that flows out of the Ira Lalaro lake, disappears into the sinkhole .

The Mainina-Loch lies at the end of a narrow gorge, at the foot of the Paitchau mountain range . Tests with color tracers have shown that the water reappears in three springs south of the mountains as well as in four springs near Com , on the north coast.

The place is a holy place of the local people. A pile of boulders blocks the way into a possible cave. So far, researchers have only been able to squeeze their way between the rocks 20 meters, then the path became too narrow.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Report of Findings on the Proposed Iralalaro Hydro-ElectricPower Scheme, Timor-Leste (pdf; 3.2 MB) Haburas Foundation and the Australian Conservation Foundation. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Hydrotimor: Iralalaru - Iralalaru Water Flow ( Memento from January 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  3. ↑ M. Freire, P. Pinto, M. Soares, S. Medeiros, ASPS Reboleira, A. Reis, M. Gomez: Fatuk-Kuak Hosi Timor Lorosa'e: Caves of Timor-Leste , Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Speleplogy, 2017, accessed January 1, 2020.

Coordinates: 8 ° 28 ′ 25 ″  S , 127 ° 10 ′ 50 ″  E