Manatuto, officially Manatuto Administrative Post (, ), is an
administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in
Manatuto municipality,
East Timor.
Its seat or
administrative centre
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
is the ''
suco
The administrative posts (former subdistricts) of East Timor are subdivided into 442 ''sucos'' ("villages") and 2,336 ''aldeias'' ("communities").http://www.unmiset.org/legal/RDTL-Law/RDTL-Minist-Orders/Decree-Order-2003-6.pdf
List of sucos by ...
'' of Sau.
The administrative post with 10,449 inhabitants (Census 2004) is divided in six Sucos:
Ailili,
Aiteas,
Cribas,
Iliheu,
Ma'abat and
Sau. The local dialect is
Galoli
The Galoli, or Galolen, are a people of East Timor with a population of about 50,000, primarily along the northern coast of the district of Manatuto. To the west lies the Mambai people. There is an old colony on the southern coast of Wetar island ...
though
Tetum is widely known.
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Temperature 2000 MANATUTO.jpg, Temperature (2000)
References
External links
* – information page on
Ministry of State Administration site
Administrative posts of East Timor
Manatuto Municipality
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