Mehara

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Mehara
Fields at Mehara
The Suco Mehara forms the west of the administrative office of Tutuala. The place Mehara is in the north of the Sucos.
Data
surface 107.82 km²
population 2,262  (2015)
Chefe de Suco Zé Meigo Neto
(election 2009)
Aldeias Population  (2015)
Loiquero 809
Porlamano 851
Porous 602
Mehara (East Timor)
Mehara
Mehara
Coordinates: 8 ° 24 '  S , 127 ° 11'  E

Mehara is a village and a suco in the east of the East Timorese administrative office Tutuala ( Lautém municipality ). "Mehara" is the Fataluku word for "ants".

The village

A hamlet in Mehara

Mehara is located at 545  m above sea level , in the northern part of the Sucos on a poorly developed road that connects the place Tutuala on the eastern tip of Timor, with the municipal capital Lospalos and the rest of the country. Minibuses, so-called microléts , serve as public transport. Mehara is located 218 km east of the state capital Dili and 24 km northeast of Lospalos as the crow flies .

The place has a community health center, elementary school and preparatory school for secondary school. In the village there are many traditional huts in the style of the local ethnic group, the Fataluku .

Among other things, the last 100 speakers of the national language Makuva , the only native Malayo-Polynesian language in the municipality of Lautém, live here . Most of the other residents speak the Papuan language Fataluku as their mother tongue , which is also increasingly used by the younger generation of Makuva. The Makuva were relocated to Lovaia from their original home villages of Loiquero on the north coast and Porlamano in 1946 . Later they were resettled in the village of Mehara.

The Suco

Mehara
places position height
Loiquero 8 ° 24 '  S , 127 ° 11'  E 545  m
Loiquero 8 ° 22 ′  S , 127 ° 9 ′  E 353  m
Mehara 8 ° 24 '  S , 127 ° 11'  E 545  m
Porlamano 8 ° 24 '  S , 127 ° 11'  E 496  m
Porous 8 ° 25 ′  S , 127 ° 7 ′  E 503  m
Dancer in Mehara (2020)
Fisherman at Mehara

2262 people live in Mehara (2015), of which 1095 are men and 1167 women. The population density is 21.0 inhabitants / km². There are 443 households in the Suco. Over 98% of the population name Fataluku as their mother tongue. Minorities speak Tetum Prasa or Makuva.

The Suco forms the western part of the Tutuala Administrative Office, on the Wetar Strait . To the east is the Suco Tutuala . In the west Mehara borders on the Lautém administrative office with its Suco Com , in the southwest and south on the Lospalos administrative office with the sucos Bauro and Muapitine . The northern tip of Mehara is Cape Ponta Aimoco Meno , further east, just a little further south, is the Ponta Tei .

South of the Tutuala - Lospalos road, Mehara extends to the Ira Lalaro (Suro-bec) , the largest lake in East Timor, whose floodplains extend deep into the Suco. Here lies the Moto sump ( 8 ° 25 '  S , 127 ° 9'  O ), with small lakes and inflows. In this flooded area, the water of the lake is up to one meter high in the Nauclea orientalis forests in February . The southern part of the Ira Lalaros is located in the Lospalos administrative office. The area of ​​the lake varies from 10 km² in the dry season to 55 km² in the rainy season. The lake is an important habitat, especially for Timor’s rich bird life, which is why it, together with large parts of the Lautém municipality, belongs to the Nino Konis Santana National Park . Several hundred saltwater crocodiles live in the lake. The seasonal flooding has so far prevented economic development in the area around the lake.

The hamlets of Loiquero ( Loikero , Loikere , Louiquero ) and Porlamano ( Polamanu ) are located near the administrative center of Mehara . The hamlet of Poros ( Ponos , Purus ) is on the road further west . Loiquero ( Loikero , Loiquere ) is located on the north coast .

In Mehara there are the three Aldeias Loiquero , Porlamano and Poros .

Before the 2015 regional reform, Mehara had an area of ​​190.67 km². Mehara used to reach as far as the Timor Sea in the south. Almost the entire Ira Lalaro belonged to the Suco and south of it the mountain Paitchau and the place Malahara . The area is now part of the Suco Muapitine. The border to Suco Tutuala has been straightened. Now Mehara has an area of ​​107.82 km².

In addition to the village of Mehara, Poros also has a primary school. Aldeias are Loiquero, Porlamano and Poros.

history

Ruins from the Portuguese colonial days on the north coast of Mehara

Traces of prehistoric settlement have been found in the two caves of Matja Kuru . Remains of captured animals that are 3500 to 4000 years old have been found, including for the first time the remains of the Coryphomys musseri , an extinct species of rat. Another find from Matja Kuru 2 is part of a 35,000 year old harpoon. Rock paintings were discovered in Vérulu .

In 1976 Mehara was a retreat of the FALINTIL , who fought against the Indonesian invaders. Here they founded a base de apoio , a resistance base that offered refuge for refugees from what was then the Lautém district . The base was later destroyed by the Indonesians.

In the 1980s, freedom fighter and later President and Prime Minister of East Timor, Xanana Gusmão , hid in Mehara.

Between August 5 and 8, 1983, hundreds of members of armed militias ( Wanra , Hansip ) from Mehara, Lore , Leuro and Serelau deserted and joined FALINTIL. The Indonesians carried out punitive actions in their hometowns. Hundreds of women and others who were left behind were rounded up on trucks and interned for several months. Torture and rape occurred. Several hundred families were later forcibly relocated to the island of Atauro , where they had to stay for years.

politics

In the 2004/2005 elections , Alvaro da Assunção was elected Chefe de Suco. In the 2009 elections , Zé Meigo Neto won .

Culture

Twice a year the Mechi of the Fataluku takes place on the coast , the gathering of the Meci worms ( Eunice viridis ). The smaller Mechi kiik takes place in the last quarter of the moon in February and the large Mechi boat at the new moon in March .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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  18. ↑ a b "Chapter 7.3 Forced Displacement and Famine" (PDF; 1.3 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
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  21. ↑ Brochure of the National Park Nino Konis Santana (English; PDF; 3.8 MB), accessed on December 25, 2012
  22. ^ The Timor-Leste Coastal / Marine Habitat Mapping for Tourism and Fisheries Development Project, Project No 2, Coastal and Marine Ecotourism Values, Issues and Opportunities on the North Coast of Timor Leste, Final Report, October 2009 ( Memento from March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 15.2 MB), accessed on December 28, 2012
  23. ^ The Timor-Leste Coastal / Marine Habitat Mapping for Tourism and Fisheries Development Project, Project No 4, Conservation Values, Issues and Planning in the Nino Konis Santana Marine Park, Timor Leste - Final Report, October 2009 ( Memento from March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 9.2 MB), accessed on December 28, 2012

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