Lospalos
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| Coordinates | 8 ° 31 ′ S , 127 ° 2 ′ E | ||
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| Country | East Timor | ||
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| Administrative office | Lospalos | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | TL-LA | ||
| Suco | Fuiloro | ||
| Residents | 12,743 (2010) | ||
 Ein Lee-teinu , a traditional holy house
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Lospalos is the capital of the Lospalos Administrative Office and has been the capital of the East Timorese municipality of Lautém since 1946 . Sometimes the place name is incorrectly spelled Los Palos , which suggests the Spanish meaning “The Piles”. In fact, the name is derived from the Fataluku words Lo ( Fleckenmusang ) and Pala (garden), which means "where the Fleckenmusangs seek refuge in the trees". Another source names the Fataluku word Lohoasupala for the origin . Loho refers to the courtyard of a farm. There is no connection between the place and the Spanish language.
Geography and inhabitants
The city of Lospalos is about 150 km as the crow flies east of the Dili . It belongs to the Suco Fuiloro , whose administrative center is the settlement of the same name seven kilometers north of Lospalos. A large number of other settlements are in between and in the immediate vicinity, so that the settlement center Lospalos has 12,743 inhabitants (2010) and is the fourth largest city in East Timor. On the road to Lautém and further on the coastal road, it is 248 km to Dili. The inland town is the easternmost terminus for the intercity buses ( Biskota ) from Dili and other parts of the country. From the bus station just outside, you can take minibuses ( Mikrolét ) to destinations in the region.
Facilities
The somewhat larger market at the bus station is of regional importance. The old market building burned down completely in the 1999 riots. An art and culture center has been built here since the end of 2012 to show the diversity of the Lautéms community. The city is very spacious, you won't find any taller buildings. The place also offers few tourist highlights. Striking are a holy house (Lee-teinu, German house on legs ) and São Paulo, the local Catholic church with the pitched straw roofs that are traditional for the region. In 1987 the church was expanded. The small Protestant minority also has a small church in Lospalos. The Masjid Al Taowa Lospalos mosque is slowly falling into ruin. The local radio station is Rádio Communidade de Lospalos RCL.
history
On February 3, 1976, Indonesian troops captured Lospalos.
On May 29, 1997, elections were held in which representatives of East Timor should be elected to the Indonesian parliament. Several attacks on the Indonesian occupying power and its supporters took place in the surrounding area. In Lospalos the brother of the head of the district parliament and some teachers were shot. The guerrillas had previously murdered three people in Muapitine.
As part of the 1999 crisis , there were also murders and evictions in Lospalos.
Town twinning
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Mornington Peninsula Shire , Australia
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Lagoa , Portugal (since March 21, 2013)
Sons and daughters
- Frederico Almeida Santos da Costa (* 1926 or 1927), APODETI chairman and co-founder
- Osório Costa (* 1966), politician
- Virgilio da Costa Hornai (* 1973), politician
- Vítor da Costa (* 1951; † 2020), politician
- Cecilio Caminha Freitas (* 1973), politician
- Rui Meneses (* 1972), politician
- João Miranda , freedom fighter and general
- Duarte Nunes (* 1953), politician
- Cornélio Ximenes , freedom fighter and general
gallery
Main intersection of Lospalos
Immanuel Church of the Protestant Church in East Timor
Seat of the municipal administration
Sheep on the outskirts
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernest Chamberlain, The Memorialat the Bebui River , p. 18 , accessed February 24, 2013
- ↑ 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 the original from February 14, 2017 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. accessed on September 28, 2014.
- ^ Seeds of Life
- ↑ Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Preliminary Result of Census 2010 English ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2014 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. (PDF; 3.2 MB)
- ↑ "Chapter 7.3 Forced Displacement and Famine" ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2015 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. (PDF; 1.3 MB) from the "Chega!" Report by CAVR (English)
- ↑ (INDONESIA-L) HRW / ASIA - East Timor Guerrilla Attacks: East Timor Guerrilla Attacks of June 4, 1997 ( Memento of September 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of East Timor ( Memento from May 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Municípios Portugueses: Geminações de Cidades e Vilas , accessed on January 7, 2018.
