Hato-Udo

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Hato-Udo
Hato-Udo (East Timor)
Hato-Udo
Hato-Udo
Coordinates 9 ° 7 ′  S , 125 ° 36 ′  E Coordinates: 9 ° 7 ′  S , 125 ° 36 ′  E
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Basic data
Country East Timor

local community

Ainaro
Administrative office Hato-Udo
Suco Leolima
height 339 m

Hato-Udo ( Hatu-Udo , Hatu Udo , Hotahudo , Hotudo , Uato-Udo, formerly: Nova Luca, Nova-Luso ) is the capital of the East Timorese administrative office of Hato-Udo ( municipality of Ainaro ).

In 1936, Hato-Udo was renamed Novo Luso by the Portuguese . But the name did not catch on and a few years after the Second World War , the old name was reverted to.

geography

Hato-Udo is 339  m above sea level in Suco Leolima , near the Lagoa Lebomulua lake . It is located in the middle of a settlement center made up of several localities that are in direct proximity to one another. It is about 61 km to the north (26 km by road) as the crow flies to the state capital Dili , and about 16 km to the northwest to the municipal capital Ainaro . In Hato-Udo there is a preparatory school for the secondary level and a community health center. There are other public institutions in the other places in the settlement center.

history

In the town of Hato-Udo, Aleixo Corte-Real , who fought against the Japanese invaders, and Nai-Chico, head of Hato-Udo, were captured and killed by the Japanese in May 1943.

During the Indonesian occupation, the then sub- district Hato-Udo was separated from the Manufahi district and attached to the Ainaro district, for which the Turiscai sub- district changed from Ainaro to Manufahi.

Individual evidence

  1. Geoffrey Hull : The placenames of East Timor , in: Placenames Australia (ANPS): Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey, June 2006, pp. 6 & 7, ( Memento of February 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). September 2014.
  2. ^ João Soares: Novo Atlas Escolar Português , 5th updated edition, Lisboa 1954
  3. UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, August 2008 ( Memento from December 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 583 kB)
  4. Kisho Tsuchiya: Indigenization of the Pacific War in Timor Island: A Multi-language Study of its Contexts and Impact , pp. 17-18, Journal War & Society, Vol. 38, no. February 1, 2018.