Bajawa
| Bajawa | |||
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| Coordinates | 8 ° 48 ′ S , 120 ° 57 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Indonesia | ||
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Nusa Tenggara | ||
| province | Nusa Tenggara Timur | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ID-NT | ||
| Administrative district | Ngada | ||
Bajawa is a city on Flores , Indonesia with approximately 44,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the administrative district ( Kabupaten ) Ngada and the center of the Ngada people of the same name . The city lies at an altitude of 1,100 meters and is surrounded by forested volcanic hills, of which Gunung Inerie is 2,245 meters high in the south .
To the northeast of Bajawa extends the Soa basin formed by the Ae Sissa river , where, in addition to numerous fossils , stone tools were discovered which in 2010 were dated to 1.02 ± 0.02 million years ago. These finds are evidence of a very early settlement of the island and thus of a potentially long-term " island dwarfing " of early groups of hominini on Flores, whose last representative - Homo floresiensis - were discovered around 100 kilometers west of Bajawa in the Liang Bua cave .
Ewaldus Martinus Sedu , Roman Catholic Bishop of Maumere, was born in Bajawa in 1963.
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↑ Adam Brumm, Gitte M. Jensen, Gert D. van den Bergh, Michael J. Morwood, Iwan Kurniawan, Fachroel Aziz, Michael Storey: Hominins on Flores, Indonesia, by one million years ago. In: Nature , Volume 464, 2010, pp. 748–752, doi : 10.1038 / nature08844
Illustration of the source ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. heise.de of March 20, 2010: "Hobbit ancestors: A million years ago people lived on the Indonesian island of Flores."
