Maubara Administrative Post

Maubara, officially Maubara Administrative Post (Portuguese: Posto Administrativo de Maubara, Tetum: Postu administrativu Maubara), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in Liquiçá municipality, East Timor, just west of the city of Liquiçá.^[1][2] Its seat or administrative centre is Vaviquinia [de].^[2]

This article is about the administrative post. For the village, see Maubara.

Maubara
Administrative Post
Posto Administrativo de Maubara (Portuguese) Postu administrativu Maubara (Tetum)
Maubara Beach
Official map
Maubara
Coordinates: 8°37′S 125°12′E
Country	East Timor
Municipality	Liquiçá
Seat	Vaviquinia [de]
Sucos	Gugleur [de] Guiço [de] Lissadila [de] Maubaralissa [de] Vatuboro [de] Vatuvou [de] Vaviquinia [de]
Area
• Total	269.0 km2 (103.9 sq mi)
Population  (2015 census)
• Total	21,920
• Density	81/km2 (210/sq mi)
Households (2015 census)
• Total	3,741
Time zone	UTC+09:00 (TLT)

References

1. "Subdistricts of Timor-Leste". www.statoids.com. 4 May 2010. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
2. "Diploma Ministerial n.o 24/2014 de 24 de Julho Orgânica dos Postos Administrativos Preâmbulo" [Ministerial Diploma No. 24/2014 of 24 July Organic of Administrative Posts Preamble]. Jornal da República (in Portuguese). Government of East Timor. 24 July 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2022.

Further reading

• Batterbury, Simon P.J.; Palmer, Lisa R.; Reuter, Thomas R.; do Amaral de Carvalho, Demetrio; Kehi, Balthasar; Cullen, Alex (2015). "Land access and livelihoods in post-conflict Timor-Leste: no magic bullets". International Journal of the Commons. 9 (2): 619–647. ISSN 1875-0281. JSTOR 26522842. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
• Kammen, Douglas (20 August 2015). Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813574127.

External links

Media related to Maubara Administrative Post at Wikimedia Commons

• Maubara Administrative Post – information page on Ministry of State Administration site (in Portuguese)
• Willis, Edward (5 February 2025). "'Impossible to Resist' – Japanese internment camps for Portuguese residents in the Liquica-Maubara area during WWII". 2/2 Commando Association of Australia. Retrieved 10 February 2025. – an Australian Army site and travel guide