Laleia

Laleia ( Leleia, Laleila, Lalaya, Lalea ) is the capital of the eponymous East Timor subdistrict in the district Manatuto.

The place

Laleia located in the north of Timor, about 70 km due east of the provincial capital of Dili and about 17 km east of the district capital Manatuto. The place is located in the northeast of the sub-district of the same name, north of the river Heuc and west of the Rio de Laleia, straddling the border between the Sucos Lifau and Haturalan. On the side of Lifau to the settlement center belonging places Lifau, Lenao and Uma Rentau are ( Uma Rentau ). On the side of Haturalan the greater part of the settlement lies with the places Uma Iuc ( Umaiuk ) Ralan ( Ranan ) and Weboro ( Beboro ). The center is located at an altitude of 156 m. Here you will find a community health center, a helipad, a preschool, two elementary schools and a pre- secondary school.

Already in 1752 there was a Catholic church in Laleia. The current building was opened in 1933 and is run by Capuchins.

The well-developed northern coastal road that a piece here runs inland, leads in place on the Rio de Laleia and connects Laleia westward with Manatuto and Dili and East with Vemasse, Baucau and loud.

The subdistrict

The subdistrict Laleia divided into three Sucos: Cairui, Haturalan ( Hatularan ) and Lifau. The sub-district is one of the driest regions of Timor. The Laleia which pervades almost the entire sub-district with its tributaries, dries up in the dry season.

In the sub-district 3,089 people live (2010, 2004: 3,205 ). The largest language group consists of the speakers of the national language Galoli. The average age is 21.9 years ( 2010, 2004: 20.0 years ). It is the nation's highest of all Subdistrikte.

In Laleia Xanana Gusmão was born in 1946, the first President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia and current prime minister.

History

Laleia and Cairui were traditional kingdoms of Timor, which were ruled by a Liurai. They appear on a list of Afonso de Castro, a former governor of Portuguese Timor, who performed 47 kingdoms in 1868.

Laleia made ​​Portugal in 1868 during the rebellion in Cova military aid. 1882, there was fighting between Vemasse and Laleia what the Portuguese commander of the Militärkommendantur was blamed.

In 1975, the population from the Indonesian invaders fled from the spot after Laleia Natarbora. In the abandoned place the Indonesian army destroyed the food supplies. Deaths from starvation were the result. 1976 the subdistrict a retreat for the Falintil who fought against the Indonesian invaders. Here they established a base de apoio, a resistance base, the refuge for refugees from Baucau, Manatuto and Viqueque bot. Later the base was destroyed by the Indonesians. The end of 1979 was in Lifau an Indonesian resettlement camp for East Timorese should be relocated for better control of the occupiers. Between 1970 and 1980 the population of the sub-district declined from 3,169 to 1,695.

Economy

44 % of households in Laleia cultivate rice, 35 % coconut, 35 % corn, 32 % cassava, vegetables 31% and 6% coffee. In the northeast, small deposits are found in gypsum, magnesium and zinc.