Vatuo
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| Coordinates | 8 ° 9 ′ S , 125 ° 37 ′ E | ||
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| Country | East Timor | ||
| Dili | |||
| Administrative office | Atauro | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | TL-DI | ||
| Suco | Biqueli | ||
| height | 71 m | ||
 House in Vatuo
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Vatuo ( Vatuu , Vatu'u , Fatu'u ) is a place on the Southeast Asian island of Atauro , which belongs to East Timor ( Suco Biqueli , Atauro administrative office , Dili municipality ).
Residents
There is a Protestant church in Vatuo. In contrast to the rest of East Timor, the population in the north of Atauros is Protestant and not Catholic. Most residents give Dadu'a as their mother tongue, a dialect of Wetar .
geography
Vatuo is located on the northwest coast of Atauro Island. The shore is a mixture of white sand and gravel. Coral reefs lie off the coast and are ideal for diving. Here the small marine fish Helcogramma atauroensis was discovered by scientists and described for the first time in 2017.
Web links
Commons : Vatuo - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Timor-Leste GIS-Portal ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ronald Fricke, Mark V. Erdmann: Helcogramma atauroensis, a new species of triplefin from Ataúro Island, Timor-Leste, eastern Indian Ocean (Teleostei: Tripterygiidae) , Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 26, 34–45 (2017), urn: lsid: zoobank.org: pub: 612DE10C-E89B-4C08-ADF9-598BC068B0AF doi: 10.5281 / zenodo.377034