Parepare

Kota Parepare Parepare
Parepare
Coordinates	4 ° 1 ′  S , 119 ° 37 ′  E Coordinates: 4 ° 1 ′  S , 119 ° 37 ′  E
Symbols
coat of arms
Basic data
Country	Indonesia
Geographical unit	Sulawesi
province	Sulawesi Selatan
height	20 m
Residents	140,000
Website	www.pareparekota.go.id (Indonesian)
Culture
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

See also : List of Mayors of Parepare

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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

Commons : Parepare  - collection of images

• Mosque in seaside pare pare in Sulawesi. Mongabay.com photo of the city