Matebian or Matebean is the third highest mountain in

Timor Leste Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the coastal exclave of Oecusse in the island's northwest, and ...

, after Ramelau (Tatamailau).

Geography

The mountain is located in

Baucau District Baucau (, ) is a municipality, and was formerly a district, of East Timor, on the northern coast in the eastern part of the country. The capital is also called Baucau (formerly Vila Salazar). The population of the municipality is 111,694 (c ...

. With an elevation of it is among the ultra-prominent peaks of the

Malay Archipelago The Malay Archipelago is the archipelago between Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia, and is also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago. The name was taken from the 19th-century European concept of a Malay race, later based ...

. At the peak is a statue of

Jesus Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament, other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. He is the Jesus in Chris ...

.Around Baucau
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Gallery

File:Mata_Bia_Massiv.jpg, Harvested rice fields of Matebian, Timor-Leste File:View_across_the_Seical_River_to_Mt_Matebian_in_background,_Baucau_30_Apr_2004.jpg, View across the

Seiçal River The Seiçal River ( or , ) is a major river in northeastern Timor-Leste. It flows for the most part in a northerly direction from headwaters in Timor's central mountains; after running past the eastern edge of the Baucau Plateau, it discharges ...

to Matebian Mountain, East Timor File:Hatekematebian.jpg, Matebian, East Timor

References

{{mountain-stub Mountains of Timor-Leste Two-thousanders of Timor-Leste