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East Flores Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Flores Timur) is a regency in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. Established in 1958, [ 2 ] the regency has its seat (capital) in Larantuka on Flores Island.
In Flores, around 85% of the population is Catholic, making it one of the areas with the largest Catholic population in Indonesia. However, East Nusa Tenggara also has a significant Muslim community, especially in Kupang City and certain regencies such as in coastal areas or on islands such as Alor and Timor.
At Ile Mandiri (East Flores regency) and Loba Tobi [i] a beautiful yellow dye was obtained by boiling the wood chips of the 'yellowwood' tree, known locally as kajo kuma. [61] Manggarai used to export Arcangelisia flava (kayu kuning [68]) to Java for the yellows in batik. [61]
This type of city and regency in Indonesia is only found in Jakarta which consisted of five administrative cities and one administrative regency. As of January 2023 [update] , there were 514-second-level administrative divisions (416 regencies and 98 cities) in Indonesia. [ 3 ]
Larantuka (Dutch: Larantoeka, Portuguese: Larantuca) is a kecamatan and the seat of East Flores Regency, on the eastern end of Flores Island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Like much of the region, Larantuka has a strong colonial Portuguese influence.
Indonesia has evacuated about 6,500 people on the island of Flores after Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano spewed thick clouds of brownish ash for the past days, authorities said on Monday. The ...
The province of East Nusa Tenggara (Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Timur) in Indonesia is divided into twenty-one regencies (Indonesian: Kabupaten) plus the independent city (Indonesian: Kota) of Kupang. These in turn are divided administratively into districts , known as Kecamantan .
The length of the island is about 80 km from the southwest to the northeast and the width is about 30 km from the west to the east. It rises to an elevation of 1,621 metres at Mount Ile Labalekang. To the west lie the other islands in the archipelago, most notably Solor and Adonara in the East Flores Regency, and then the larger island of Flores.