Palopo

Geographical unit

Palopo is the third largest city in the province of South Sulawesi in Indonesia. By early 2006, the district-free since 2002 the city was the capital of the region ( kabupaten ) Luwu. Has the port city in the north-west of the Gulf of Bone about 120,000 inhabitants in an area of 155.19 km ².

Palopo was founded around 1620. Little is known about Palopo off the Dutch annexation of South Sulawesi in 1905. The city is the location of the oldest mosque in South Sulawesi, the Jami Tua of 1604.

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