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With a length of approximately 118 km, it flows periodically through 9 districts in the East Sumba Regency, exiting to the Bay of Kambaniru (Indonesian: Teluk Kambaniru) near the city of Waingapu to the Sawu Sea, with high debit in the wet season, but very low in the dry season. [2]
Sumba Island was a subject of Majapahit's dominion, and the word "Sumba" itself was first officially used during the Majapahit era (mentioned in the ancient Javanese manuscripts of Pararaton and Sumpah Palapa oath of Gajah Mada); the word itself was thought as the closest substitution in Javanese for the native name of the island according to ...
The town of Waingapu is the capital of East Sumba Regency (its urban area comprises the kecamatan of Kota Waingapu and Kambera). The population of East Sumba Regency was 227,732 at the 2010 Census [ 2 ] and 244,820 at the 2020 Census; [ 3 ] the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 255,498 (comprising 131,082 males and 124,416 females).
Kodi is a Sumba language of Indonesia.The population figure may include Gaura, which Ethnologue counts as a dialect of both the Lamboya and Kodi languages. [2] Kodi is an Austronesian language that is mainly spoken in Nusa Tenggara Timur province, the western part of the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia.
Sumba people have a rich and relatively diverse oral folklore. Preserved traditional festivals, which includes horse race, bull sacrifices, complex funerary rituals and fights with spears. Pasola is the cultural feast of the Sumba people and is considered one of Indonesia's cultural richness, which is very rare and unique to the Sumba people. [19]
Hancur badan di kandung tanah, Budi yang baik dikenang juga. Dua tiga kucing berlari, Mana sama si kucing belang; Dua tiga boleh ku cari, Mana sama adik seorang. Pisang emas dibawa berlayar, Masak sebiji di atas peti; Hutang emas boleh dibayar, Hutang budi dibawa mati. I've got that loving feeling, hey! I've got that loving feeling, hey!
Waingapu is the only town that has two bus stations on its periphery, one in the south and one in the west, each about 5 km out of town. But almost all buses depart from the old “Terminal Kota” in the town center, near the market or on Jalan El Tari; they probably stop by in the bus stations.
Southwest Sumba Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Sumba Barat Daya) is a regency on Sumba Island in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. Established on 2 January 2007 out of parts of West Sumba Regency , the regency has its seat (capital) in Tambolaka .