Baucau

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This article is a city in East Timor. For the district of the same name, see Baucau District.
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Baucau
Old market of Baucau
Location in Baucau District
Baucau is located in East Timor
Baucau
Location in East Timor
Coordinates: 8°28′S 126°27′E / 8.467°S 126.45°E / -8.467; 126.45
Country  Timor-Leste
District Baucau District
Subdistrict Baucau
Population
 • Total 16,000

Baucau is the second-largest city in East Timor, after Dili, the capital, which lies 122 km east of Dili.

Baucau has about 16,000 inhabitants, and is the capital of Baucau, located in the eastern part of the country. In the times of Portuguese Timor, Baucau was called Vila Salazar, after the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

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Infrastructure [link]

Much of the infrastructure of the city and the surrounding area was damaged or destroyed during the riots that followed the referendum for independence in 1999. Nevertheless, in the old part of Baucau there survive a few relics from the Portuguese colonial era, such as large colonial houses, churches, and public buildings. One of these is the Pousada de Baucau, a large pink hotel whose restaurant offers a magnificent view of the ocean.

The shops, restaurants, and the imposing municipal market conduct business, although unemployment, particularly among the young, is very high. There are a few successful experiments that have converted old war-oriented businesses into light engineering, and a league of small businesses are beginning in the areas of hygiene and health, food production and processing, transport, small retail, and tourism.

Baucau also has a hospital, a nursing school and a swimming pool owned by the Pousada de Baucau.

Religion [link]

Baucau is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baucau, one of the two Bishoprics in East Timor. It was founded on November 30, 1996, when the bishopric in Dili split. Its bishop is Basilio do Nascimento.

Transportation [link]

Six kilometers from the city lies the Cakung Airport (code IATA: NCH), a.k.a. LANUD for the local people. It has what is currently the country's longest airport runway, as Dili's Lobato International Airport can only serve small aircraft like the Boeing 737. It served as the country's principal airport before the Indonesian invasion in 1975, when it was taken over by the Indonesian military.

  • The beach in Baucau

  • Church of Baucau

  • Fields of Baucau area

  • Colonial building

  • Administration building

  • Fisher on the beach

  • Upper part of Baucau city

  • Huts in the lower part

  • House at the beach

  • Street from city center to the beach

  • Wall painting

  • Wall painting

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District capitals of East Timor
Flag of East Timor

Coordinates: 8°28′S 126°27′E / 8.467°S 126.45°E / -8.467; 126.45


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Baucau District

Baucau (Tetum: Baukau), is 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 district is 111,694 (census 2010) and it has an area of 1,506 km2. The subdistricts are Baguia, Baucau, Laga, Quelicai, Vemasse, and Venilale (formerly known as Vila Viçosa). The district was the same during the colonial era. Its north edge is to the Wetar Strait; it also borders the districts of Lautém to the east, Viqueque to the south, and Manatuto to the west.

Besides the national official languages of Tetum and Portuguese, most of the inhabitants speak the Papuan language Makasae. While most of the inhabitants are Roman Catholics, a few Muslims also live there.

Baucau has the most highly developed agriculture in East Timor. Besides the staples rice and corn, Baucau produces beans, peanuts, sweet potatoes, copra, candlenut and manioc. It also raises buffalo and goats. A shortage of transportation links and the unpredictability of energy availability stymie the development of emerging industries.

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