Murilo
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| archipelago | Hall Islands , Caroline Islands | |
| Geographical location | 8 ° 40 ′ N , 152 ° 11 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 28 | |
| Main island | Murilo Island | |
| length | 38 km | |
| width | 19 km | |
| Land area | 1.287 km² | |
| Lagoon area | 349.862 km² | |
| total area | 414 km² | |
| Residents | 1076 (2000) | |
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Murilo , also called Murillo , is an inhabited atoll in the Caroline Islands archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean . Politically, it belongs to the Chuuk state of the Federated States of Micronesia .
geography
Murilo is located in the north of the state of Chuuk, around 100 km north-northeast of the central Chuuk Atoll . It is located 9 km northeast of the neighboring Nomwin atoll , which geologically comes from the same seamount and with which it geographically forms the Hall Islands . Murilo is around 38 km long, up to 19 km wide and has a total area of 414 km². On the fringing reef there are 28 islands, some of them very small, with a total land area of almost 1.3 km², of which Murilo in the east, Ruo in the south and Numurus in the west are the largest in terms of area. The lagoon has an area of almost 350 km².
administration
The atoll belongs to the statistical island region of Oksoritod and there to the sub-region of Halls . It includes the two communities Murillo in the east with 607 inhabitants and Ruo in the west of the atoll with 469 inhabitants. The Atoll Murilo has a total of 1076 inhabitants (as of 2000) who speak a dialect of the Chuukesian language , which is one of the Micronesian languages .
Web links
- Murilo on Oceandots ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, English)
- ^ A b Otis W. Freeman, Geography of the Pacific, Wiley 1953 (converted to metric)
- ↑ Chuuk State Census Report, 2000 (PDF, English; 3.4 MB)
