Afaloicai (Uatucarbau)

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Afaloicai
The Suco Afaloicai is located in the northwest of the administrative office of Uatucarbau. The place Afaloicai is located in the southeast of Sucos.
Data
surface 22.14 km²
population 1,349  (2015)
Chefe de Suco Joana M. Fonseca Pinto
(election 2009)
Aldeias Population  (2015)
Cai Uailita 366
Daralari 375
Lacuhu 431
Lequiuala 177
Afaloicai (East Timor)
Afaloicai
Afaloicai
Coordinates: 8 ° 41 ′  S , 126 ° 40 ′  E

Afaloicai ( Afloicai, Afaloikai , Afaloi-kai ) is an East Timorese place and Suco in the administrative office of Uatucarbau ( municipality of Viqueque ).

The place

The place Afaloicai is located in the southeast of Sucos, at an altitude of 289  m , about 38 km as the crow flies east of the municipal capital Viqueque and about 120 km southeast of the state capital Dili . It is also called Uatucarbau ( Watu-Carbau , Watucarbau , Hato Carbau , Uato Carbau , Uata Carbau , Uato Carabau , Uatocarabau , Uatucarbau , Uato-Carabau ). In 1936 Afaloicai was renamed Nova Benfica by the Portuguese . But the name did not catch on and a few years after the Second World War , the old name was reverted to. In the colonial times, Afaloicai was the center of the administrative office. Today it is in Suco Irabin de Baixo .

Here is the Escola Primaria Afaloicai primary school and a helipad for emergencies. To the east of the village square is the Igreja de Nossa Senhora de Fátima church . The place is often not accessible during the rainy season. The poorly developed overland road connects Uatucarbau with Baguia and Laga on the north coast and to the south with the better developed southern coastal road.

The places Daralari ( Deralare ) and Lequiuala ( Lecoala ) border directly on Afaloicai . There is also a primary school and a helipad here.

The Suco

Afaloicai
places position height
Afaloicai 8 ° 41 ′  S , 126 ° 40 ′  E 289  m
Alooli 8 ° 42 '  S , 126 ° 38'  E 699  m
Bahatata 8 ° 39 ′  S , 126 ° 39 ′  E 328  m
Betoria 8 ° 42 ′  S , 126 ° 40 ′  E 340  m
Builicorae 8 ° 39 ′  S , 126 ° 39 ′  E 328  m
Cai Uailita 8 ° 39 ′  S , 126 ° 38 ′  E 645  m
Daralari 8 ° 41 ′  S , 126 ° 40 ′  E 340  m
Lacuhu 8 ° 39 ′  S , 126 ° 38 ′  E 645  m
Lacuhu 8 ° 40 ′  S , 126 ° 38 ′  E 643  m
Liabuta 8 ° 40 ′  S , 126 ° 39 ′  E 389  m
Lequiuala 8 ° 41 ′  S , 126 ° 40 ′  E 292  m
Macaducarau 8 ° 42 '  S , 126 ° 39'  E 454  m
Marae 8 ° 39 ′  S , 126 ° 38 ′  E 459  m
Nelouai 8 ° 39 ′  S , 126 ° 39 ′  E 286  m
Ossomali 8 ° 41 ′  S , 126 ° 38 ′  E 643  m
Samalari 8 ° 39 ′  S , 126 ° 39 ′  E 301  m
Tatadere 8 ° 39 ′  S , 126 ° 39 ′  E 312  m
Tetumori 8 ° 40 ′  S , 126 ° 39 ′  E 325  m
Uaimare 8 ° 40 ′  S , 126 ° 40 ′  E 284  m
Uaniuma 8 ° 42 '  S , 126 ° 38'  E 699  m
Uatobita 8 ° 40 ′  S , 126 ° 39 ′  E 413  m

Afaloicai has 1,349 inhabitants (2015), of which 657 are men and 692 women. The population density is 60.9 inhabitants / km². There are 308 households in the Suco. Over 89% of the population name Naueti as their mother tongue. Almost 10% speak Makasae and a minority speak Tetum Prasa .

Before the 2015 territorial reform, Afaloicai had an area of ​​39.79 km². Now there are 22.14 km². The Suco is in the northwest of the Uatucarbau administrative office. To the east is the Suco Loi Ulo , to the south the Sucos Irabin de Baixo and Uani Uma . In the southwest, Afaloicai borders on the administrative office Uato-Lari with its Suco Vessoru . In the north lies the administrative office of Baguia, belonging to the municipality of Baucau, with its Sucos Afaloicai , Osso Huna , Hae Coni , Alawa Craik and Larisula . The Bassaruai River flows along the northern border . It joins two rivers that arise in the west of Afaloicai and flow across the entire Suco, the Loissouro and the Buroho . The rivers are part of the Irebere system .

A little south of Afaloicai are the villages Betoria and Macaducarau , further west Alooli and Uaniuma . In the north, the villages Bahatata , Builicorae , Cai Uailita ( Caiualita ), Lacuhu ( Locohu ), Liabuta ( German  White Cave ), Marae , Nelouai , Samalari ( Makasae for " banyan tree "), Tatadere , Uatobita ( Umobita ) form a settlement center with one Primary school, a medical station and a helipad for emergencies. Further south there is another place called Lacuhu ( Locohu ). Ossomali is in the neighborhood . The places Tetumori and Uaimare between the rivers Loissouro and Buroho.

The four Aldeias Cai Uailita , Daralari , Lacuhu and Lequiuala are located in the Suco .

history

The name of the sucos comes from the former Timorese empire of Afaloicai .

In the place Afaloicai there was an Indonesian camp for East Timorese at the end of 1979 , who should be relocated by the occupiers for better control.

politics

In the 2004/2005 elections , Manuel Pinto was elected Chefe de Suco. In the 2009 elections , Joana M. Fonseca Pinto won . She is one of only two women in the Viqueque parish in this position.

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 Geoffrey Hull : The placenames of East Timor , in: Placenames Australia (ANPS): Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, June 2006, pp. 6 & 7, ( Memento of February 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on September 28, 2014.
  3. ^ João Soares: Novo Atlas Escolar Português , 5th updated edition, Lisboa 1954
  4. ↑ List of polling stations for the parliamentary elections in East Timor 2007 (PDF file; 118 kB)
  5. ↑ a b c UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas ( Memento of December 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 509 kB)
  6. ↑ Fallingrain.com: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in East Timor
  7. ↑ Results of the 2010 census for the Suco Afaloicai ( tetum ; PDF; 8.4 MB)
  8. ↑ Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Population Distribution by Administrative Areas ( Memento from January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Census 2010; PDF; 22.6 MB)
  9. ↑ a b Timor-Leste GIS Portal ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Juliette Huber: Linguistic archeology in Timor ( Memento from January 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Jornal da Républica with the Diploma Ministerial n. 199/09 ( Memento of February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese; PDF; 323 kB)
  12. ↑ "Chapter 7.3 Forced Displacement and Famine" ( Memento of November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.3 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
  13. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2004/2005 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2009 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

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