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The earliest stories (among Westerners) of a dragon-like animal existing in the region circulated widely and attracted considerable attention. But no Westerner visited the island to check the story until official interest was sparked in the early 1910s by stories from Dutch sailors based in Flores in East Nusa Tenggara about a mysterious ...
Liang Bua is a limestone cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia, slightly north of the town of Ruteng in Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara.The cave demonstrated archaeological and paleontological potential in the 1950s and 1960s as described by the Dutch missionary and archaeologist Theodor L. Verhoeven.
In early 2019, the Nusa Tenggara Timor (NTT) provincial governor Viktor Laiskodat announced a plan to close a section of the park (a main section on Komodo Island) for a year in order to make improvements. [43] The suggestion was that other parts of the park, including Rinca and Padar Islands and certain parts of Komodo Island, would remain open.
Subak's "democratic and egalitarian farming practices" helps rice growers in accommodating Bali's dense population. The largest and most notable water temple in Bali is the Pura Taman Ayun, established in the 18th century. [11] The Jatiwulih rice terraces is pictured. Komodo National Park: West Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara: 609; Natural:
The ecoregion includes a chain of volcanic islands in the Lesser Sunda Islands.The Lombok Strait lies at the western end of the ecoregion, separating Lombok from Bali.The Lombok Strait is part of the Wallace Line, a major biogeographic boundary separating the Indomalayan and Australasian biogeographic realms.
Bungin Island (Indonesian: Pulau Bungin) is located in Alas District, Sumbawa Regency, West Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia. [2] The island is situated within Bali Sea, 70 kilometers west of the center of Sumbawa Besar district. [3] The island is administratively one of the villages in the district.
Article I of the act defines a cultural property as of "important value for history, science, and culture", being either a man-made object or group of objects, movable (bergerak) or immovable (tidak bergerak), aged at least fifty years which has or have high historical value,; or natural objects with high historical value. [1]
Flores has 35.24% of the East Nusa Tenggara provincial population as of 2023, and is the largest of all islands in the province, with the second-largest population (Timor has slightly more people). The eight regencies are listed below from east to west, with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census [ 26 ] and the 2020 Census, [ 27 ...