Com (Lautém)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Com
The Lua Ira near Com
The Suco Com is located to the east of the Lautém administrative office. The place Com is on the coast of the Sucos.
Data
surface 59.89 km²
population 2,353  (2015)
Chefe de Suco Calisto Bernadino Vilela
(election 2009)
Aldeias Population  (2015)
Etepiti 1,280
Ira'ono 99
Lohomato 229
Muapusso 114
Pitileti 253
Vailovaia 378
Com (East Timor)
Com
Com
Coordinates: 8 ° 21 ′  S , 127 ° 3 ′  E

Com ( Kon , Kun ) is a village and Suco on the north coast of the East Timorese administrative office Lautém ( Lautém municipality ), near the Ponta Camatara .

Surname

The place name is derived from the Fataluku word kon (u) or kounu , which means "night" or "dark place" depending on the source. In 1936 Com was renamed Nova Nazaré 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.

The place

The village of Com

The village is located 20 kilometers east of the village of Lautém . Com is at 46  m above sea level , on one of the largest plains in the country, the Plain of Com . The Indonesian island of Kisar , 50 kilometers away, is visible from Com in good weather. The place Com forms a settlement center with several directly neighboring villages. Here are Lohomato ( Lomatu ), Mata , Muafono ( Muafoso ) and Sabandar .

Com is the eastern end point of the well-developed northern coastal road, which leads via Baucau and the state capital Dili (203 km) to the border with Indonesia at Batugade and is one of the most important traffic routes in the country. Another, smaller overland road leads south to the municipal capital of Lospalos, about 20 kilometers away . Com has a helipad, anchorage, medical post and elementary school.

The Suco

Com
places position height
Airliu 8 ° 20 ′  S , 127 ° 2 ′  E 0  m
Com 8 ° 21 '  S , 127 ° 3'  E 46  m
Etepiti 8 ° 20 ′  S , 127 ° 1 ′  E 15  m
Ira'ono 8 ° 22 ′  S , 127 ° 2 ′  E 279  m
Lohomato 8 ° 21 '  S , 127 ° 3'  E 8  m
Mata 8 ° 21 '  S , 127 ° 4'  E 8  m
Muafono 8 ° 21 '  S , 127 ° 4'  E 8  m
Pitileti 8 ° 22 ′  S , 127 ° 2 ′  E 218  m
Sabandar 8 ° 21 '  S , 127 ° 4'  E 8  m
Salara 8 ° 22 ′  S , 127 ° 6 ′  E 13  m
Vailovaia 8 ° 22 '  S , 127 ° 3'  E 46  m
Secondary forest in the southwest of the Sucos on the Assalaino Plateau

2353 people (2015) live in Suco Com, of which 1140 are men and 1213 women. The population density is 39.3 inhabitants / km². There are 484 households in the Suco. Over 98% of the population name Fataluku as their mother tongue. Minorities speak Tetum Prasa or Tetum Terik .

The 2015 territorial reform did not change the boundaries of Com. The surface of the sucos is 59.89 km². Com is on the Strait of Wetar , to the east of the Lautém administrative office. In the west Com borders on the Suco Parlamento , in the east on Mehara (administrative office Tutuala ) and in the south lies the Suco Bauro (administrative office Lospalos ). Three small lakes lie northeast of Com in an area called Ran : the Utchan Ira , the Umun Ira and the Lua Ira . Here you can find different species of birds, such as sandpipers , purple herons , scarlet macaw , Black Bittern , Reef egret , nankeen night heron , little pied cormorant and little grebe . The area of ​​the lakes is claimed by the Fataluku Clan ( Ratu ) Kati. Slash-and-burn agriculture, illegal logging and hunting threaten the biotope.

The villages of Vailovaia , Pitileti ( Petileti , Peti Leti ) and Ira'ono ( Iraono , Itaono ) are on the road to Lospalos, west of the settlement center of Com . On the road to Lautém, in a north-westerly direction, are the places Airliu and Etipeti . To the east is the village of Salara on the coast . Pitileti has another medical post and a primary school. The Ira Ono spring is located on the eastern outskirts of Ira'ono .

In Com there are the six Aldeias Etepiti , Ira'ono , Lohomato , Muapusso , Pitileti and Vailovaia .

history

Timor around 1700 with the empire Com at the eastern tip

Near Com are Telupunu caves, which have been used as accommodation for 2000 years, most recently by the freedom fighters of the FALINTIL in the 1980s.

Com used to be one of the traditional kingdoms of Timor, ruled by a Liurai . It is unclear whether it was a vassal of Sarau to the west . In Com, people deny that their neighbors, who appear regularly in historical Portuguese documents together with Faturó , ever had to pay tribute. Com doesn't appear on a list of Afonso de Castro , a former governor of Portuguese Timor who listed 47 empires in 1868.

After East Timor's declaration of independence in 1975, Indonesia began a large-scale invasion of the neighboring country. Until October 1976, the place Lautém and the connecting road to Lospalos were under Indonesian control, but it was not until 1977 that East Timor was also occupied in the area. In the same year, the residents of Com surrendered to the Indonesian Battalion 512. They were immediately interned on the beach for a week and then deported to Parlameno, where they were merged with other interned civilians from across the Lautém district .

politics

The village of Com

In the 2004/2005 elections , Rafael da Conceição was elected Chefe de Suco. In the 2009 elections won Calisto Bernadino Vilela .

economy

There is a beach resort in Com. There are some coral reefs off the coast where tourists can go diving. The Suco is part of the Nino Konis Santana National Park .

There are currently plans for an international marketplace in Com in order to be able to trade with the Indonesian Kisar.

Culture

A woman is weaving a tais

In Com, cotton yarn spun by itself is combined with purchased yarn for Tais . The roots of the noni tree , the leaves of the Charunu plant from the genus Indigofera and mud are used to dye the cotton . Three classic types are traditionally used in Com, although the motifs are different for men and women: The Tais Sica Lau (also Sikalao ) are worn in traditional ceremonies. Dark brown and black dominate the Tais for the men (Tais Sica Lau Mane) , red for the women (Tais Sica Lau Feto) . Tais Upulakuaru are the tais traditionally worn for ceremonies in the region around Com, for example for weddings. They stand out because of their more colorful motifs. Tais Sapulau wear unmarried men and women. At weddings the groom has to bring 77 buffalo as dowry, the bride 10–15 ikat-tais (tais sisirana) .

Twice a year the Mechi takes place at the Fataluku in Com , the collecting 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 . In August a sardine fishing festival is celebrated, the Api moko lere .

Web links

Commons : Com  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ Andrew McWilliam: Looking for Adê - A contribution to Timorese historiography , page 222 ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kitlv-journals.nl
  3. ↑ a b 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 of 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anps.org.au
  4. ^ João Soares: Novo Atlas Escolar Português , 5th updated edition, Lisboa 1954
  5. ↑ a b c Timor-Leste GIS-Portal ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ a b UNMIT card from August 2008 ( memento of the original from December 3, 2011 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; 389 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / unmit.unmissions.org
  7. ↑ Fallingrain.com: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in East Timor
  8. ↑ Results of the 2010 census for the Suco Com ( tetum ; PDF; 8.6 MB)
  9. ^ Raimundo Mau: Ecosystem and Community Based Model for Zonation in Nino Konis Santana National Park, Timor-Leste, 2010 ( Memento from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 26, 2014.
  10. ↑ Helen K. Larson, Duncan Buckle, Jessica Lynas, Andrew Storey, Chris Humphrey: Additional records of freshwater fishes from Timor-Leste, with notes on the fish fauna of the unique closed Irasiquero River system , The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, 2007 23: 131-135 .
  11. ↑ Jornal da Républica with the Diploma Ministerial n. 199/09 ( Memento of February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese; PDF; 323 kB)
  12. ↑ Tony Wheeler, Lonely Planet: East Timor
  13. ↑ Andrew McWilliam: Harboring Traditions in East Timor: Marginality in a Lowland Entrepˆot ( Memento of the original from August 13, 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; 373 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cultura.gov.tl
  14. ↑ TIMOR LORO SAE, Um pouco de história ( Memento of the original dated November 13, 2001 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / oecussi.no.sapo.pt
  15. ↑ East Timor - PORTUGUESE DEPENDENCY OF EAST TIMOR ( Memento of February 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ "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)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cavr-timorleste.org
  17. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2004/2005 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2009 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ Suara Timor Loro Sa'e, March 1, 2011, Kom residents of Lautem district call on the Government to open border market
  20. ↑ Tais Timor-Leste: Com ( Memento of the original from August 31, 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 August 31, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / taistimorleste.com
  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

f1Georeferencing Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap