Parepare
Kota Parepare Parepare |
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Coordinates | 4 ° 1 ′ S , 119 ° 37 ′ E | |
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Country | Indonesia | |
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Sulawesi | |
province | Sulawesi Selatan | |
ISO 3166-2 | ID-SN | |
height | 20 m | |
Residents | 140,000 | |
Website | www.pareparekota.go.id (Indonesian) | |
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Twin cities | Tawau , Malaysian |
Parepare , also Pare-Pare , is a city ( kota ) in Indonesia on the island of Sulawesi , Sulawesi Selatan Province ("South Sulawesi"), on the Makassar Strait about 155 km north of the provincial capital Makassar .
Parepare is a coastal town with an estimated 140,000 inhabitants and is ruled by an elected mayor. The majority of the inhabitants are Bugis . From here ships go to several ports on the east coast of Kalimantan .
The doubling of the name is the plural form in the Indonesian language . Paré (or Peria in Indonesian ) is the Javanese word for balsam pear . Pare Pare without a hyphen means “(several) balsam pears”. Pare-Pare is the name of a frame on which dishes are stored.
On January 11, 2009, a ferry from Parepare to Kalimantan got into distress in a tropical cyclone ; over 240 people were reported missing.
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie , the third President of Indonesia, was born in Pare-Pare.
politics
Individual evidence
- ↑ More than 240 passengers missing. Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 12, 2009 ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Mosque in seaside pare pare in Sulawesi. Mongabay.com photo of the city