Cablac
| Cablac (Cablaque) | ||
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 The Cablac in June |
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| height | 2180 m | |
| location | Ainaro municipality , East Timor | |
| Mountains | Ramelau Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 8 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 125 ° 35 ′ 30 ″ E | |
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 Southwest slopes of the Cablac |
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The East Timorese mountain Cablac ( Cablaque ) is located in the east of the municipality of Ainaro . It is 2180 m high ( other source: 2054 m ).
overview
The region consists of steep gorges and high cliffs. A dense casuarina forest grows between 800 and 1500 m . The region is considered interesting for ornithologists, even if it is still relatively unexplored zoologically. The summit and the surrounding forest have been a protected natural area (PNA) since 2000. On October 20, 2015, the government decided to create the Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão National Park on Cablac. The aim is to preserve this symbolic place of the “struggle for the liberation of the Timorese people” in memory of the “sacrifice of the martyrs of the fatherland”.
history
On May 27, 1912, there was a major battle here during the Manufahi rebellion between the Portuguese colonial troops and the Timorese leader Boaventura . The rebels had holed up here taking advantage of the rugged landscape, but were defeated by the overwhelming power of the Portuguese and forced to flee. Since then, the Cablac has been transfigured as Manufahi's holy mountain.
On October 21, 1990, Xanana Gusmão , the then guerrilla leader of FALINTIL, gave an interview to the Australian journalist Robert Domm in a camp on Cablac . It was Gusmão's first interview by a foreign reporter. Domm had entered East Timor, occupied by Indonesia , as a tourist and was taken to the guerrilla camp, where 50 fighters lived , by RENETIL activist Domingos Sarmento . On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of this meeting, the Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão National Park was created in 2015.
See also
literature
- Constâncio Pinto, Matthew Jardine: East Timor's Unfinished Struggle: Inside the Timorese Resistance , 1997, South End Press, ISBN 978-0-89608-541-1
Web links
- Tectonic Evolution of the Cablac Formation, East Timor ( January 8, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b East Timorese government website: Meeting of the Council of Ministers on October 20th, 2015 , accessed November 1, 2015.
- ^ Map from 1979
- ↑ Turismo Timor-Leste ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2007 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. (English)
- ↑ UNTAET Regulation No. 2000/19 - On protected places ( Memento from October 18, 2000 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 39 kB)
- ^ Government of Timor-Leste: Timor-Leste builds National Park Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão , October 26, 2015 , accessed on November 11, 2015.
- ↑ History of Timor - Technical University of Lisbon ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF; 824 kB)
- ↑ SAPO: Governo timorense cria Parque Nacional Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão , October 21, 2015 , accessed on November 1, 2015.
The administrative borders within East Timor changed in 2015. This article must therefore be checked and updated if necessary. See New Administrative Boundaries .