Nain Feto

Nain Feto is a sub-district, which forms the eastern center of the East Timorese capital Dili.

Name

" Nain " is in Tetum the term for a person of respect (for example, Lian Nain ), " Feto " means " woman ", so that you can roughly with " mistress " or " superscript Lady" can translate the name of the sub-district. It is the name given to Tetum for the Holy Mother Mary.

Geography

The subdistrict is 5.15 km ², the smallest area of ​​sub-district of the country. It lies on the southern shore of the Bay of Dili and is bordered to the west by the sub-district of Veracruz and in the east and south by the subdistrict Cristo Rei. In the southeast of the sub-district touches district Aileu with his subdistrict Laulara.

2004, the three Sucos Bairo Central, Bairo dos Grilos ( Bairo dos Grilhos ) and Bairo Formosa were summarized for Suco Gricenfor. The Sucos Bidau Santana and Meti Aut were the subdistrict Cristo Rei slammed, but the Sucos Acadiru Hun ( Akadiru -Hun ) and Bemori of Cristo Rei came to Nain Feto. The Sucos Lahane Oriental and Santa Cruz switched from subdistrict Veracruz at Nain Feto. Thus, Nain Feto shares today in six Sucos: Acadiru Hun, Bemori, Bidau Lecidere, Gricenfor, Lahane Oriental and Santa Cruz. Up to Lahane Oriental Sucos all are classified as urban.

The district Balide divided the Suco Mascarenhas ( subdistrict Veracruz ) and the Suco Santa Cruz ( subdistrict Nain Feto ) on.

Population

In Nain Feto 26 592 people live (2010, 2004: 18,693 ). The average age is 21.6 years ( 2010, 2004: 20.2 years ).

Even in urban Dili are managed by the inhabitants fields and gardens to supplement the livelihood. 12% of households in Nain Feto have coconut trees, 13% build cassava, maize 12 % and 9 % vegetables. In addition, pets are kept as chickens and pigs.

History

Bairo Formosa in today's Suco Gricenfor is the old Chinese district of Dili. Even today, here are the Chinese Temple and the Chinese primary school.

In the district Bidau, who now splits into Bidau Lecidere and Bidau Santana ( subdistrict in Cristo Rei), settled originally on the ethnicity of the Bidau. This mixed population of Portuguese and local people from Larantuka (Flores ), Solor and Timor controlled for centuries, large parts of West Timor. Until the 1960s into it they said Português de Bidau, a Creole Portuguese. By the time they moved more and more to the standard Portuguese.

On the beach of Lecidere ( Lécidere ) was found in 1975 in the early days of the Indonesian invasion of the body by Francisco Borja da Costa, the composer of the national anthem of East Timor.

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