Abafala

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Abafala
The Suco Abafala is located in the north of the Quelicai administrative office. The place Abafala is located in the northwest of Sucos.
Data
surface 20.54 km²
population 938  (2015)
Chefe de Suco Joséfa de Oliveira
(election 2016)
Aldeias Population  (2015)
Assa-Loqui 222
Caranu 250
Mumana 292
Telaha 174
Abafala (East Timor)
Abafala
Abafala
Coordinates: 8 ° 33 '  S , 126 ° 34'  E

Abafala is an East Timorese place and Suco in the Quelicai administrative office ( municipality of Baucau ).

The place

The place Abafala is in the northwest of the Sucos, at an altitude of 303  m , on the overland road that connects the place Baguia with the northern coastal road. The place is crossed by the border between the sucos Abafala and Guruça . Here is the primary school of sucos, the Escola Primaria Catolica Abafala .

The Suco

Abafala
places position height
Abafala 8 ° 33 '  S , 126 ° 34'  E 303  m
Mumana 8 ° 34 '  S , 126 ° 34'  E 340  m
Wabere 8 ° 34 '  S , 126 ° 34'  E 340  m

938 inhabitants live in Abafala (2015), of which 464 are men and 474 women. The population density is 45.7 inhabitants / km². There are 211 households in the Suco. Over 95% of the population name Makasae as their mother tongue. Minorities speak Tetum Prasa , Tetum Terik , Habun and Idalaka .

Before the 2015 territorial reform, Abafala had an area of ​​3.34 km². Now there are 20.54 km². The Suco is to the north of the Quelicai administrative office. To the west and north is the Suco Guruça, to the east the Suco Uaitame and to the southwest the Sucos Baguia and Macalaco . The Otorocaiboro River , a source of the Uaimuhi, flows across Abafala .

The overland road that connects Baguia with the coast follows the western border of the Sucos. On the southwest corner of Abafala is the village of Mumana , which is partly in the area of ​​the three neighboring sucos . Also Wabere , the third largest town Abafalas is divided by a Sucogrenze. In the east it is partly in Uaitame.

The four Aldeias Assa-Loqui , Caranu , Mumana and Telaha are located in the Suco .

history

Between 1979 and 1981 the inhabitants of Sucos were forcibly relocated to Mulia ( Laga administrative office ) by the Indonesian occupying forces . 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. Under heavy guard, the residents were brought to Mulia on trucks via the resettlement camp in Quelicai.

politics

In the elections of 2004/2005 was Felix elected Chefe de Suco. In the 2009 elections won Abel D. dos Reis Moreira and 2016 Joséfa de Oliveira .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ List of polling stations for the parliamentary elections in East Timor 2007 (PDF file; 118 kB)
  3. ↑ Fallingrain.com: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in East Timor
  4. ↑ Results of the 2010 census for the Suco Abafala ( 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 ) Timor-Leste GIS portal
  7. ↑ UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, August 2008 ( Memento from December 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 499 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. ↑ "Chapter 7.3 Forced Displacement and Famine" (PDF; 1.3 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  10. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2004/2005 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2009 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Jornal da República: Lista Naran Xefe Suku Eleito 2016 , December 2, 2016 , accessed on June 17, 2020.

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