Passabe Administrative Post
Administrative post in Oecusse Municipality, East Timor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Passabe, officially Passabe Administrative Post (Portuguese: Posto Administrativo de Passabe, Tetum: Postu administrativu Pásabe), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in the Oecusse municipality and Special Administrative Region (SAR) of East Timor, which is an exclave surrounded on three sides by Indonesian West Timor.[1][2] Its seat or administrative centre is the suco of Abani.[2] In the 2004 census it had a population of 7,531 people in 1,153 households. Passabe is a small village (sulo) in the administrative post, very near the Indonesian border. It was the site of a massacre of East Timorese by pro-Indonesia militias in the follow-up to the 1999 referendum for East Timor's independence.
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Passabe | |
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 Traditional house in Abani | |
 Official map | |
  Passabe | |
| Coordinates: 9°28′S 124°21′E | |
| Country |  East Timor |
| Municipality | Oecusse |
| Seat | Abani |
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| Area | |
• Total | 60.2 km2 (23.2 sq mi) |
| Population (2015 census) | |
• Total | 7,879 |
| • Density | 130/km2 (340/sq mi) |
| Households (2015 census) | |
| • Total | 1,817 |
| Time zone | UTC+09:00 (TLT) |
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