Tutuala

Tutuala (formerly Nova Sagres ) is a village in the East Timorese capital of the subdistrict and district loud and Sucos Tutuala.

• 2.1 policy

• 3.1 Geography
• 3.2 residents

The place

Tutuala is located about 190 km due east of the provincial capital of Dili, at an altitude of 71 m. At the district capital Lospalos is 32 km away. Tutuala can be reached from Lospalos with a mini bus ( mikrolet ) via a poorly maintained road. The village is situated near the Cape Cutcha (Cabo Cutcha ), the easternmost point of the island of Timor. Cape leads from the place a dirt road steeply down through the forest.

Most houses are simple huts. At the eastern end of the village there is a villa from the colonial period, which houses a guesthouse ( pousada ). Previously resided here the colonial administrator Tutualas. Regional significance of the primary school ( Escola Primaria Tutuala ) and the police station. In addition, the settlement center also features a medical station. The church was built in 1972 /73 of Salesian Father Bernardo João Soares, a native of Cape Verde. The Liurai Joaquim Fonseca de Tutuala presented the country. The church is dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima.

Sons and daughters

• Nino Konis Santana (1955-1998), East Timorese freedom fighters

Nossa Senhora de Fatima, the Church of Tutuala

Pousada by Tutuala

The Village Shop Tutuala

The Suco

In Suco Tutuala live 1302 (2010, 2004: 1,339 ). About 99 % of the population give Fataluku as their native language. A minority speaks Tetum Prasa.

Tutuala located in the extreme eastern part of the island of Timor, and has an area of ​​119.69 km ². In the West, the Banda Sea is the Suco Mehara, in the north of the road from Wetar and to the south the Timor Sea. When belonging to the Suco Jaco Island, on the eastern tip of Timor, meet the seas.

Besides the village Tutuala are in the vicinity thereof southwest places Ioro ( Loro ), Tchailoro ( Chailoro ) and Vero and southeast of the village Pitileti ( Piti Leti, Petileti ).

In Suco are the four aldeias Ioro, Pitileti, Tchailoro and Vero.

• Pictures from 1970

Ioro

Tchailoro

Policy

In the elections of 2004/2005 António da Fonseca was elected Chefe de Suco and re-elected in 2009.

The subdistrict

Geography

Tutuala is the easternmost sub-district of East Timor. From the north, the Banda Sea surrounds the Strait of Wetar, from the south the Timor Sea, the subdistrict. In the West Tutuala borders the Subdistrikte loud and Lospalos. Tutuala divided into two Sucos: The Suco Tutuala and Mehara.

In the sub-district ( Suco Mehara ), the Lagoa Ira Lalaro (also Suro -bec ), which is the largest lake in East Timor with 6.5 km long and 3 km wide. From it flows towards the south of Irasiquero which disappears before the Paitchau mountain range in Mainina - hole, a Ponor. Color tests have shown that the water in both three sources south of the mountains, as well as in four sources near Com, on the north coast, reappears. The Paitchau mountain range located in the south of Mehara and extends west east direction. Your foothills lead further to the northeast in the direction of the place Tutuala. Striking feature is its highest peak, insulated from the other mountains standing Paitchau with 995 m. The mountain range forms the southern and eastern boundary of the Fuiloro - plateau, which extends into the Nachbarsubdistrikt Lospalos. Another river is the Vero in Suco Tutuala, which flows into the Timor Sea on the south bank. Northwest of the town lies the small Tutuala Lagoa Zeleha, a lake that is fed by a river and is connected by its drain to the street of Wetar.

Valu beach opposite the island of Jaco

Jaco Island

A hamlet in Mehara

The Irasiquero

Since 2000, the beach of Tutuala and the forest behind it a wildlife refuge. On 27 July 2007 123,600 acres ( 68,000 hectares of land and 55,600 hectares of the sea) by the government were declared a national park Nino Konis Santana, the first national park in the country. The official inauguration took place on August 4, 2008.

Population

The sub-district has 3,836 inhabitants (2010, 2004: 3,707 ). The largest language group consists of the speakers of the national language Fataluku. In Suco Mehara, west of Tutuala the last speakers of the national language Makuva, the only native Malayo -Polynesian language in the district live. The average age is 17.8 years ( 2010, 2004: 17.4 years ).

17 % of households in Tutuala grow maize, cassava 17%, 16 % coconut, 14% vegetables, 11 % rice and 2% coffee.

History

Close to the place Tutuala is the limestone cave Jerimalai, in 42,000 years old archaeological finds were discovered. These are the oldest traces of human settlement in the Lesser Sunda Islands at all. Close to the beach of Tutuala there are several caves and rock shelters, where there are cave paintings. The exact age of the drawings was never precisely determined, although it is certainly remarkable. Estimates for the paintings in Ile Kere Kere ( Ili - kere - kere ) go from 2000-6000 years. A stone engraving in the cave Lene Hara is even 10,000 years ago. In addition, they found in the cave Jerimalai one about four inches long fish hook made ​​from a the shell of a sea snail. He is estimated to be 16000-23000 years, making it the oldest known fish hooks in the world.

Like many of the ethnic groups Timor also has every clan of Fataluku ( ratu ) an appropriate foundation myth, which tells of the arrival of the ancestors to Timor. A special form of Kati ratu ratu and Tutuala. Their legends tell that they are from their current home, indicating that they may be longer on Timor, were assimilated than other Fataluku and from them. Be ratu The elders of the Tutuala traditional " lord of the land ' ( mua Ocawa ) called. You therefore fall to the specific rights and obligations in ceremonies. Alone in the Suco Tutuala there are 24 different Ratus.

To Tutuala around are the remains of several fortifications ( lata irinu ), with which the Fataluku formerly protected their settlements.

1999 also occurred in Tutuala to violence in the context of the independence referendum in East Timor in 1999. Years later you could see the ruins of destroyed building in the village.

Culture

Twice a year, on the beach of Valu on Jaco and other places in the sub-district of Mechi Fataluku place, collecting the Meci worms ( Eunice viridis). In the last quarter of the moon in February is the smaller Mechi Kiik and at the new moon in March the big Mechi boat instead. In addition to songs on Fataluku in the celebrations including those sung in the " language of commerce ". It is Leti, the language of Indonesian Leti Islands, which you can reach within a day sailing. Traditionally, there was a lively trade between Tutuala and the Leti Islands, including batik sarongs. Since the independence of East Timor in 2002 the trade across national borders has declined.

In 1970, you could numerous sacred houses (Lee - teinu ) found in the Suco Tutuala. However, they were largely destroyed during the Indonesian occupation. Meanwhile, the eye-catching buildings are on stilts and with the steep roofs, a national symbol of East Timor and to be rebuilt.