Estado

Data

surface

9.75 km²

population

3,022 (2010)

Chefe de Suco

Antonio Maia dos Santos
(election 2009)

Aldeias

Population (2010)

Coração de Jesus

422

Coulão Haburas

259

Hamric Metin

325

Huitaso

226

Indau Lulic

111

Lihmo

259

Moris Mesac

384

Railacan

128

Saramata

287

Sinai

52

Tajaquina

211

Tatoli

358

Aitura

Coordinates: 8 ° 48 ′ S , 125 ° 24 ′ E

Estado is an East Timorese Suco in the Ermera administrative office ( municipality of Ermera ), southwest of the state capital Dili .

geography

Estado
places	position	height
Aitura	8 ° 48 ′ S , 125 ° 24 ′ E-8.7994444444444 125.4025	1484 m
Darudu	8 ° 47 ′ S , 125 ° 26 ′ E-8.7816666666667 125.43944444444	1483 m
Hatomotei	8 ° 48 ′ S , 125 ° 26 ′ E-8.8 125.42694444444	1397 m
Haturema	8 ° 47 ′ S , 125 ° 26 ′ E-8.7877777777778 125.42916666667	1438 m
Klaetlau	8 ° 47 ′ S , 125 ° 26 ′ E-8.7758333333333 125.44055555556	1469 m
Kukhata	8 ° 46 ′ S , 125 ° 27 ′ E-8.7697222222222 125.44666666667	1311 m
Leotelo	8 ° 48 ′ S , 125 ° 26 ′ E-8.7952777777778 125.425	1418 m
Manubobo	8 ° 48 ′ S , 125 ° 23 ′ E-8.7980555555556 125.38638888889	1519 m
Raitu	8 ° 47 ′ S , 125 ° 25 ′ E-8.7902777777778 125.4175	1455 m
Rematu	8 ° 48 ′ S , 125 ° 24 ′ E-8.7919444444444 125.40777777778	1504 m
Tilitir	8 ° 47 ′ S , 125 ° 23 ′ E-8.7897222222222 125.38888888889	1517 m

In the Holy House of Estado

Traditional clothing

Drummers in Estado

Before the 2015 territorial reform, Estado had an area of 12.68 km². Now it is 9.75 km². The Suco is located in the south of the administrative office of Ermera. To the north are the Sucos Leguimea , Humboe and Lauala , south of the Suco Raimerhei . In the west, Estado borders on the administrative office of Hatulia with its Suco Coilate-Letelo , in the east on the administrative office of Letefoho with its sucos Eraulo and Goulolo . In the northeast, the Suco extends to the shore of Lake Lehumo . In the northwest, in the border area with Leguimea, the river Lahosa , which belongs to the river system of the Lóis , has its source , as does a river that has its source on the southeast border with Goulolo. The rivers Caraulun and Hatoe flow into it, coming from Goulolo .

The overland road from Maliana to Ermera leads through the Suco in the northwest through a small Schlencker . A little further away is the village of Tilitir ( Tititir ). Manubobo is to the west . In the middle part of the narrow Sucos on the northern border is the place Rematu , more in the south the place Aitura . In the east are the places Raitu ( Riatu ), Haturema , Hatomotei and Leotelo ( Leotelon ) and in the northeastern foothills of the Sucos the villages Darudu , Klaetlau and Kukhata . The overland road from Gleno to Letefoho runs through Kukhata and along the eastern border . There is a primary school in Tilitir and Klaetlau and a preparatory school for secondary school in Haturema. There is also a medical station in the east.

In the Suco there are the twelve Aldeias Coração de Jesus ( dt . : Heart of Jesus ), Coulão Haburas , Hamric Metin (Hamrik Metin) , Huitaso , Indau Lulic (Indau Lulik) , Lihmo , Moris Mesac (Moris Mesak) , Railacan (Railakan) , Saramata , Sinai , Tajaquina and Tatoli .

Residents

The Suco has 3,022 inhabitants (2015), of which 1,512 are men and 1,510 women. The population density is 310.1 inhabitants / km². There are 521 households in the Suco. Almost 98% of the population name Tetum Prasa as their mother tongue. Almost 2% speak Mambai and a small minority speak Tetum Terik .

history

According to oral tradition, the name of the sucos comes from the Portuguese colonial times. When a Portuguese asked the local Liurai the name of the place, he asked the European what was the most powerful thing in his country. The Portuguese said "the state" ( Portuguese Estado ), whereupon the Liurai declared that his territory would be called "Estado".

On November 16, 2006, a serious incident was reported from Estado that had occurred a few days earlier. Youngsters from Colimau 2000 - an organization founded by former underground youth activists - from Ermera and elsewhere - attacked an offshoot of the Perguruan Setia Hati Terate (PSHT) Martial Arts Club in the village of Estado. Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta said, according to unconfirmed information, there were four dead. Ten houses were also burned down. Ramos-Horta had flown to the scene of the attack in a helicopter to get an idea of the situation. Special police forces have been deployed to the region. One witness reported that around 600 young people from Colimau 2000 attacked the Martial Art Club, armed with samurai swords, machetes, spears, bows and arrows and rifles. The attack appears to have been an act of revenge. On November 2, PSHT members beat up a member of Colimau 2000.

politics

In the elections of 2004/2005 was Antonio Maia dos Santos elected Chefe de Suco and in 2009 re-elected.

economy

An important commodity: coffee from Ermera

On May 23, 2004, President Xanana Gusmão and Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri opened one of the largest coffee processing plants with wet processing of the coffee in Estado . The owner and operator is the Cooperativa Café Timor ( CCT ), East Timor's largest cooperative with around 20,000 planters as members.

The factory in Estado buys coffee fruits from members of the CCT in the highlands of the municipality of Ermera. In the factory, the fruits are washed, the pulp removed, the beans fermented and prepared for drying. Together with the factory in Maubisse , CCT can buy 25,000 tons of coffee, twice as much as in 2003.