Comoro

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Comoro
The Suco Comoro is located to the west of the Dom Aleixo administrative office.
Data
population 44,411  (2015)
Chefe de Suco Eurico da Costa de Jesus
(election 2016)
Aldeias Population  (2015)
12 de Outubro 14,025
30 de Agosto 8,797
4 de Setembro 6,467
Aimutin 1,886
Bayaleste New
Fomento I 2,336
Fomento II 2,044
Fomento III 817
Golgotha 1,945
Mori's lady New
Posto Penal 759
Ramelau Delta 969
São José 1,973
São Miguel 798
Comoro (East Timor)
Comoro
Comoro
Coordinates: 8 ° 33 '  S , 125 ° 31'  E

Comoro (Komoro) is a district in the west of Dilis , the capital of East Timor and Suco of the administrative office of Dom Aleixo ( municipality of Dili ).

geography

Comoro
places position height
12 de Outubro 8 ° 33 ′  S , 125 ° 31 ′  E ?
4 de Setembro 8 ° 34 ′  S , 125 ° 32 ′  E ?
Aimutin 1 8 ° 33 '  S , 125 ° 33'  E 50  m
Aimutin 2 8 ° 34 ′  S , 125 ° 33 ′  E 50  m
Aimutin laran 8 ° 34 ′  S , 125 ° 33 ′  E 64  m
Beduku 8 ° 35 ′  S , 125 ° 32 ′  E 124  m
Haslaran 8 ° 34 ′  S , 125 ° 32 ′  E 64  m
Kampung Baru 8 ° 33 ′  S , 125 ° 32 ′  E 0  m
Kelapa 8 ° 33 ′  S , 125 ° 32 ′  E ?
Lapangan Terbang Comoro 8 ° 33 ′  S , 125 ° 31 ′  E ?
Lih Baulelo 8 ° 34 ′  S , 125 ° 30 ′  E ?
Lurumata 8 ° 33 '  S , 125 ° 33'  E 0  m
Manleu Lidun 8 ° 35 ′  S , 125 ° 32 ′  E ?
Marinir 8 ° 32 ′  S , 125 ° 32 ′  E 0  m
Mate Lahotu 8 ° 32 ′  S , 125 ° 32 ′  E ?
Merdeka 8 ° 33 ′  S , 125 ° 32 ′  E 10  m
Pantai Kelapa 8 ° 33 ′  S , 125 ° 32 ′  E 4  m
Paularan 8 ° 32 ′  S , 125 ° 32 ′  E 0  m
Pomento 8 ° 33 ′  S , 125 ° 32 ′  E 64  m
Rai Nain 8 ° 33 '  S , 125 ° 33'  E ?
São José 8 ° 33 '  S , 125 ° 33'  E ?
São Miguel 8 ° 33 '  S , 125 ° 33'  E ?
Tasitolu Lakes and Atauro Island in the background

The actual Comoro is today in Suco Madohi . After East Timor's independence was restored in 2002, the Suco was merged from the Sucos Loscabubu , Suleur , Malinamoc and Rai Naca Doco . Before the regional reform in 2015, Comoro had an area of ​​25.18 km². Until 2017 it was 15.36 km², then the new Sucos Bebonuk , Madohi and Manleuana were separated from Comoro in the north in order to adapt the administrative structures to the population growth. The Aldeias Badiac , Lemocari , Mane Mesac and Mauc came to Manleuana . The Aldeia Moris Foun went to Bairro Pite . The Aldeia Mate Lahotu Beto Timur was dissolved, but with Bayaleste (Baya Leste) and Moris Dame two new Aldeias were created.In Suco Comoro there are now the 14 Aldeias 12 de Outubro , 30 de Agosto , 4 de Setembro , Aimutin , Bayaleste , Fomento I , Fomento II , Fomento III , Golgota , Moris Dame , Posto Penal , Ramelau Delta , São José and São Miguel .

The Suco is located to the west of the Dom Aleixo administrative office. To the east of Comoro are the Sucos Fatuhada , Bairro Pite (both also administrative office Dom Aleixo) and Dare (administrative office Vera Cruz ). To the west lies the Suco Tibar (administrative office Bazartete , municipality Liquiçá ). In the north, which opens Comoro River in the Wetar Strait , which, however, leads only in the rainy season water. Further to the west are the three salt lakes of Tasitolu , into which several small rivers and streams, such as the Mota Tasitolu , flow. The Northern Coastal Road, one of the country's most important transport links, runs through the north of Sucos.

The outskirts of the state capital Dili extend to the lakes of Tasitolu. On the coast on the border with Fatuhada is the São José district , west of it to the Rio Comoro Kelapa ( German  coconut ), Paularan and Mate Lahotu , and south Pantai Kelapa ( Pantaikelapa , Portuguese Praia dos Coqueiros , German  coconut beach ), Lurumata . Between the border with Bairro Pite and the Rio Comoro are the districts of Aimutin (divided into Aimutin 1 , Aimutin 2 and Aimutin Laran ), Pomento , Haslaran , Rai Nain , 4 de Setembro and Manleu Lidun . On the west bank of the Rio Comoros from the mouth down are the quarters Marinir , Merdeka and Beduku . South of Dili airport are Lapangan Terbang Comoro , Kampung Baru (Kampungbaru) and 12 de Outubro and south of the Tasitolu Lakes are Lih Baulelo .

Residents

The Aldeias, which have been part of Comoro since 2017, have 44,411 inhabitants (2015). Almost 93% of the population name Tetum Prasa as their mother tongue. There are also small minorities of other languages: Tetum Terik , Baikeno , Bunak , Fataluku , Makasae or Mambai .

history

Comoro was one of the centers of the 2006 unrest that rocked East Timor, and especially Dili. In the years that followed, there were repeated clashes between different gangs .

politics

Eurico da Costa de Jesus, Chefe de Suco (2016)

In the 2004/2005 elections , Eurico da Costa de Jesus was elected Chefe de Suco and confirmed in his office in 2009 and 2016 .

Infrastructure

The Suco has three police stations and a community health center on Rua 30 de Agosto .

Schools in Suco are the Escola Primaria Tasitolu , the Escola Primaria Kampung Baru , the Escola Primaria Aimutin , four other primary schools, the Escola Pre-Secondario 30 de Agosto No. 1 , the Escola Pre-Secondario 12 de Outubro , the Externato de São José , the Escola Secondaria Fimatil, the Escola Santa Madalena de Canossa and the Colégio São Miguel Arcanjo . The Televisão Educação Timor is located in the Colégio São Miguel Arcanjo .

  • The community health center

  • Escola Santa Madalena de Canossa

Culture and sights

Beach at the mouth of the Rio Comoro

The artists' association Arte Moris with its art school is based in the former National Museum in Comoro.

In the middle of the roundabout in Comoro is the larger-than-life statue of Nicolau Lobato , which was inaugurated in 2014 , after which the airport is named. Lobato was the first Prime Minister and later President of East Timor. He died in 1978 fighting the Indonesian invaders.

A six-meter-high monumental statue of Pope John Paul II has stood in Tasitolu since 2008. It is a counterpart to the statue of Jesus on the east side in Cristo Rei . Next to the Pope's statue is a chapel that also commemorates him and his mass on October 12, 1989 in Tasitolu.

An example of the Marian grottoes (Gruta) widespread in East Timor is the Lourdes grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes from Comoro with a man-sized statue of the Virgin Mary.

The Tasitolu salt lakes are home to numerous birds. The sea off the coast is an excellent diving area.

  • Arte Moris

  • Pope John Paul II statue in Tasitolu

  • Roundabout with Lobato statues

  • Sea anemone on the coast of Tasitolu

  • Lourdes grotto from Comoro

  • In the Lourdes grotto

Sports

The football club Boavista Futebol Clube Timor-Leste (formerly Carsae FC) is based in Golgotha.

Web links

Commons : Comoro  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ Fallingrain.com: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in East Timor
  3. ↑ Timor-Leste: Poverty in a Young Nation ( Memento from December 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 1.10 MB)
  4. ↑ Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Population Distribution by Administrative Areas Volume 2 English ( Memento from January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Census 2010; PDF; 22.6 MB)
  5. ↑ a b Direcção-Geral de Estatística: DILI EM NÚMEROS 2016 , p. 3, accessed on March 8, 2019.
  6. ↑ Independente: Four New Villages For Dili , April 17, 2017, accessed March 15, 2019.
  7. ↑ a b Timor-Leste GIS Portal ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ a b c UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, August 2008 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 583 kB)
  9. ↑ Results of the 2010 census for the Suco Comoro ( tetum ; PDF file; 7.75 MB)
  10. ↑ International Crises Group: Timor-Leste's Elections: Leaving Behind a Violent Past? , Update Briefing, Asia Briefing N ° 134, Dili / Jakarta / Brussels, 21 February 2012 ( Memento of March 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 1.33 MB)
  11. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2004/2005 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2009 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ GMN TV: Xefe Suku Comoro Eurico da Costa Kritika Xefe Lahane , June 11, 2020 , accessed on June 11, 2020 .
  14. ↑ List of polling stations for the parliamentary elections in East Timor 2007 (PDF file; 118 kB)
  15. ↑ Escola Santa Madalena de Canossa
  16. ↑ Carsae FC's Facebook page: Imprint , accessed on February 28, 2017.

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