Tilomar, officially Tilomar Administrative Post (, ), is an
administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in
Cova Lima municipality
Cova Lima (, ) is a municipality of East Timor, in the Southwest part of the country. It has a population of 59,455 (Census 2010) and an area of 1,230 km2. The capital of the municipality is Suai, which lies 136 km from Dili, the ...
,
East Timor
East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-we ...
.
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, L ...
is
Casabauc.
The administrative post has an area of 194,64 km
2[Direcção Nacional de Estatística: 2010 Census Wall Chart (English)](_blank)
(PDF; 2,7 MB) and 7,043 inhabitants (2010).
Most spoken language is
Tetum Terik
, nativename=''Tetun Dili, Tetun Prasa''
, states= East Timor
, speakers=
, date=2009
, ref=
, speakers2 = L2: in East Timor
, familycolor=Austronesian
, fam2= Malayo-Polynesian
, fam3= Central–Eastern
, fam4= Timoric
, fam5= Oceanic
, fam6=Te ...
, but there is a big
Bunak
The Bunak (also known as Bunaq, Buna', Bunake) people are an ethnic group that live in the mountainous region of central Timor, split between the political boundary between West Timor, Indonesia, particularly in Lamaknen District and East Timor. ...
minority, too. Tilomar is divided into four
sucos:
Beiseuc,
Casabauc,
Lalawa, and
Maudemo.
59% of the households in Tilomar are producing corn, 58% maniok, 53% vegetables, 48% coconuts, 15% rice and 8% coffee.
References
External links
* – information page on
Ministry of State Administration site
Administrative posts of East Timor
Cova Lima Municipality
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