Arlo (Atauro)

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Arlo
Arlo (East Timor)
Arlo
Arlo
Coordinates 8 ° 11 ′  S , 125 ° 35 ′  E Coordinates: 8 ° 11 ′  S , 125 ° 35 ′  E
Atauro posto administrativo.png
Basic data
Country East Timor

local community

Dili
Administrative office Atauro
ISO 3166-2 TL-DI
Suco Biqueli
height 268 m
Residents 252 (2010)
Landscape near Arlo
Landscape near Arlo

Arlo is a place and Aldeia on the East Timorese island of Atauro .

geography

On the way to Arlo is the entrance to a sacred cave

Arlo has been part of Suco Biqueli (previously Beloi ) in the Atauro administrative office in the municipality of Dili since 2015 . The village is located on a hill, above a fertile, 400 meter wide valley, near the north west coast of the Sucos, between the Ponta Mano Tala (Buku Manolala) in the north and the town of Adara in the south. Limestone emerges where agriculture has eroded the thin layer of earth. It takes two hours on a road to get to Beloi. Arlo itself does not have a school.

Residents

At the 2010 census, there were 179 women and 173 men in Arlo. What is unusual for the predominantly Catholic East Timor is that the majority of the northern residents of Atauros are Protestants . They were evangelized by Dutch Calvinists from Alor in the 20th century .

history

Traces of settlement in Arlo have been dated to an age of 3000 years. In the Lepu Kina cave there were traces of ceramics that were up to 3200 years old, and other finds such as obsidian shards, shell and glass beads and metal fragments of more recent date. The rock paintings show showing crocodiles and marine mammals , among other things . One picture shows the hunt for a whale. No such representations on rock paintings are known from East Timor.

economy

Arlo used to be the pottery center of Atauro, but the local pottery vessels (called Sanan Rai ) have been increasingly replaced by metal and plastic containers. In 2014 only two women, both over 90 years old, were able to make these jugs. Development workers helped to pass the knowledge on to other women. The pots now sell for $ 4 apiece, and basket weaving also improves the family income. There are also three small shops in the village.

Web links

Commons : Arlo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jornal da República: Diploma Ministerial n ° 16/2017 , with corrections dated May 9, 2017 , accessed on March 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ Ministry of State Administration and Territorial Management : Map of the Atauro Administration Office ( Memento of July 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ Dutchpickle: Arlo Village Atauro , November 26, 2006 , accessed June 22, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b Jean-Christophe Galipaud: Réseaux néolithiques, nomades marins et marchands dans les petites îles de la Sonde , January 2015 (French) , accessed on June 22, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Kim S. Ely, Mike Sandiford, Margaret L. Hawke, David Phillips, Mark Quigley, João Edmundo dos Reis: Evolution of Ataúro Island: Temporal constraints on subduction processes beneath the Wetar zone, Banda Arc , Jornal of Asian Earth Sciences 41 (2011) 477-493, accessed June 22, 2019.
  6. ↑ UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, August 2008 ( Memento from December 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 448 kB)
  7. ↑ a b c Ariana Simões de Almeida: Turning traditions into livelihoods - A case study on women economic empowerment in Timor-Leste , 2017 , accessed on June 22, 2019.
  8. ↑ Sapo Notícias: Ocupação humana em Ataúro data de há pelo menos 18 mil anos - arqueólogo , April 24, 2017 , accessed on May 3, 2017.