Beaco

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Beaco
Beaco
Coordinates	8 ° 57 ′  S , 126 ° 27 ′  E Coordinates: 8 ° 57 ′  S , 126 ° 27 ′  E
Beaco is located on the south coast of the Viqueque sub-district
Basic data
Country	East Timor
local community	Viqueque
Administrative office	Viqueque
Suco	Maluru
height	13 m
Immanuel Church in Beaco

Beaco ( Beaço , Beacu , Beaçu , Beasu ) is a village in the south of the East Timorese administrative office of Viqueque , municipality of Viqueque . The place name is derived from the local language Tetum Terik . Be means "water", asu "dog".

geography

Beaco consists of the districts Loho Oan and Maluro and is located at 13  m above sea level on the Timor Sea . A little to the east is Cape Ponta Deilubun ( Ponta Beaco ). Until 2015, Beaco was part of the Suco Fatudere , now it is part of the Sucos Maluru .

Beaco has a medical station and a primary school. There is an anchorage off the coast, the only one in the entire municipality and one of the nine possibilities for larger ships to moor in East Timor. A bridge spans the small river Beaco in Beaco . One of the most important roads in East Timor, which runs along the southern coast, passes through it. There are some caves near Beaco. Archaeological investigations did not find any interesting finds there.

In Beaco, a US $ 943 million natural gas terminal for ships is to be built by a Chinese company within four years, once the financing is cleared.

history

The Naueti speakers in Beaco form an island of languages, apart from the other areas in which Naueti dominates. According to oral tradition from Daralari (Suco Babulo ) they should come from there. According to tradition, the ancestors of the Beaco-Naueti were brought to the coast as prisoners of war in order to exchange them for firearms.

In 1974, Indonesian troops landed near Beaco and pushed on towards Baucau when the neighboring country occupied East Timor, which had been independent for just nine days.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Juliette Huber: Linguistic archeology in Timor ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 26, 2017. 
2. ^ Timor-Leste GIS-Portal ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Ministry of State Administration and Territorial Management : Map of the Viqueque Administrative Office ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 8, 2017. 
4. ↑ A presença portuguesa em Timor Lorosa'e (Portuguese)
5. ↑ UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, August 2008 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 497 kB)  
6. ↑ The archaeological background to Timor (PDF file; 368 kB)
7. ↑ e-global: Timor-Leste: Eempresa Chinesa vai construir porto no sul do território timorense , April 29, 2019 , accessed on April 30, 2019.
8. ↑ Susana Barnes: Origins, Precedence and Social Order in the Domain of Ina Ama Beli Darlari , In: Land and life in Timor-Leste, p. 29.
9. ^ David Scott: Last Flight Out of Dili