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Mamasa
Mamasa may refer to: *Mamasa language *Mamasa Regency * Mamasa River See also * Polewali-Mamasa, a former Indonesian Regency *Toraja Mamasa Church The Toraja Mamasa Church was established on 7 June 1947, and based in West Sulawesi. It is a Protestant church, and a member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches. It was a fruit of the Christian Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, a conser ...
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Mamasa Regency
Mamasa Regency (), covering a land area of 3,005.88 km2 with its capital at Mamasa city, is the only inland regency without a coast among the six Regency (Indonesia), regencies that make up the West Sulawesi (Sulawesi Barat) Province on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. The Mamasa people, a sub-group of the Toraja people, form the most common ethnic group. Despite being the home to the Gandang Dewata National Park,Gandangdewata
gunungbagging.com, accessed 20 March 2025.
the regency has immense untapped tourism potential hindered by the political apathy towards developing the transport and tourism infrastructure, which is keeping the local populace in poverty.


History


Pre-history

The oldest evidence for humans on Sulawesi are stone tools produced by archaic humans, d ...
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Mamasa Language
Mamasa is an Austronesian language spoken in West Sulawesi, Indonesia. This language is the native language of the Mamasa people which is related to the Toraja people. Dialects Three dialects can be distinguished: * Northern Mamasa * Central Mamasa * Pattae' Speakers of Pattae' are a culturally distinct ethnic group traditionally more affiliated to the Mandar people The Mandarese are an ethnic group in the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi in Sulawesi. The Mandar language belongs to the Northern subgroup of the South Sulawesi languages group of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language fam ... than to speakers of the Northern and Central Mamasa dialects in the interior, and for that reason Pattae' is considered by its speakers to be a language separate from Mamasa proper (i.e. Northern and Central Mamasa). Phonology Mamasa has the following consonants and vowels: References Further reading * Languages of Sulawesi South Sulawesi languages To ...
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Polewali-Mamasa
Polewali Mandar is one of the five regencies in West Sulawesi province of Indonesia. It borders on the regencies of Mamasa in the North, Majene in the West and Pinrang regency of South Sulawesi in the East. It covers an area of 2,074.76 km2 and had a population of 396,120 at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. and 478,534 at the 2020 Census;Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 495,371 (comprising 246,748 males and 248,623 females).Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2024, ''Kabupaten Polewali Mandar Dalam Angka 2024'' (Katalog-BPS 1102001.7604) The regency is inhabited by various ethnic groups such as the Mandar, Buginese, Javanese and Toraja. Mandar is an indigenous ethnic group forming the majority of the population. There are several national public figures originated from this region. The most famous one is the legendary Attorney General Baharuddin Lopa. The current provincial governor, Ali Baal Masdar, ...
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Mamasa River
Mamasa River is a river in Sulawesi, Indonesia.Sungai Mamasa
at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27 It is a tributary of the .


Geography

The river flows in the southeast area of Sulawesi with predominantly (designated as ''Am'' in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). The annual average temperature in the area is 23 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is June, at 24 °C ...
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