South Alas
| Desa Alas Selatan South Alas village
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| Basic data | |
| Country | Indonesia |
| province | East Nusa Tenggara |
| Administrative district | Malaka |
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| Residents | 2361 (2010) |
| ISO 3166-2 | ID-NT |
Coordinates: 9 ° 28 ' S , 125 ° 4' E
 
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Location in East Nusa Tenggara Province
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South Alas ( Alas Selatan ) is an Indonesian Desa ("village") in the district ( Kecamatan ) East Kobalima ( Kobalima Timur ) on the island of Timor .
geography
South Alas is located in the south of the East Kobalima District ( Malaka Administrative Region , East Nusa Tenggara Province ). To the north is the Desa Alas , to the west is the Kobalima district and to the east, South Alas borders the neighboring state of East Timor . In the south is the Timor Sea .
South Alas is in the tropics. The annual average temperature is 24 ° C, the annual rainfall is 1705 mm. The month with the lowest rainfall is August with 13 mm. In January the rainy season reaches its peak with 310 mm of precipitation.
Residents
In 2010 there were 2,361 people in southern Alas. The majority of them belong to the Bunak ethnic group . Most of the Bunak are descendants of refugees who left Maucatar in East Timor when it was given to the Portuguese by the Dutch in 1916 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Penduduk Indonesia menurut desa 2010 ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Indonesian; PDF; 6.0 MB), accessed on January 26, 2013
- ^ Map of Belu County , accessed July 27, 2014.
- ↑ Climate-Data-org: Klima: Alas Selatan , accessed on July 30, 2014.
- ↑ Antoinette Schapper: Finding Bunaq: The homeland and expansion of the Bunaq in central Timor ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2013 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 January 26, 2013
