Laritame
| Laritame (Fatu Laritame) | ||
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| height | 1394 m | |
| location | Suco Builale , Ossu Administrative Office , Viqueque Municipality , East Timor | |
| Coordinates | 8 ° 41 ′ 28 ″ S , 126 ° 23 ′ 19 ″ E | |
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The East Timorese Laritame (also Monte Laritame ) is a Fatu , a mountain typical for the island of Timor with steep walls (hence Fatu Laritame ). It is located in Suco Builale ( Ossu Administrative Office , Viqueque municipality ).
geography
The mountain landscape consists of a few hundred hectares of mountain forest, agricultural fields and grassland. To the north are the sources of the Seiçal , one of the few rivers that also carry water all year round in the north of the country.
fauna
The Laritame belongs to the Important Bird Area of the neighboring Monte Mundo Perdido . A number of rare and endemic bird species can be found here, as well as other animals and rare orchids. Parachloritis laritame , one of the newly discovered land snail species known only from this region, was named after the mountain .
Individual evidence
- ^ Coordinates of Monte Laritame
- ^ A b Bird life International: A lost world in Timor-Leste. Mount Mundo Perdido. A profile of its biodiversity and conservation (PDF; 755 kB)
- ↑ Frank Köhler, Vince Kessner: Mitochondrial and morphological differentiation in a previously unrecognized radiation of the land snail genus Parachloritis Ehrmann, 1912 on Timor (Pulmonata: Camaenidae) , Zoology, 83 (1) 1-40 (2014) , accessed on 16. February 2017.
The administrative borders within East Timor changed in 2015. This article must therefore be checked and updated if necessary. See New Administrative Boundaries .