Baguia Administrative Post

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

Baguia
Administrative Post
Posto Administrativo de Baguia (Portuguese) Postu administrativu Bagia (Tetum)
Landscape in Matebian
Official map
Baguia
Coordinates: 8°38′S 126°40′E
Country	East Timor
Municipality	Baucau
Seat	Alawa Leten [de]
Sucos	Afaloicai Alawa Craik [de] Alawa Leten [de] Defawasi [de] Hae Coni [de] Larisula [de] Lavateri [de] Osso Huna [de] Samalari Uacala [de]
Area
• Total	212.2 km^2 (81.9 sq mi)
Population  (2015 census)
• Total	12,962
• Density	61/km^2 (160/sq mi)
Households (2015 census)
• Total	2,642
Time zone	UTC+09:00 (TLT)

Baguia, officially Baguia Administrative Post (Portuguese: Posto Administrativo de Baguia, Tetum: Postu administrativu Bagia), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in Baucau municipality, East Timor.^[1][2] Its seat or administrative centre is Alawa Leten [de],^[2] and it has ten sucos.

Taur Matan Ruak, president of East Timor between 2012 and 2017, was born in Osso Huna [de] suco, Baguia Administrative Post, in 1956.

Sucos

• Afaloicai
• Alawa Craik [de] (Alaua-Craik, Alaua Craic)
• Alawa Leten [de] (Alaua-Leten)
• Defawasi [de] (Defawase, Defa-Uasse)
• Hae Coni [de] (Hae-Coni, Haeconi)
• Larisula [de] (Lari Sula)
• Lavateri [de]
• Osso Huna [de] (Osso-Huna)
• Samalari
• Uacala [de]

See also

• Baguia Fort

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.

External links

Media related to Baguia Administrative Post at Wikimedia Commons

• Baguia Administrative Post – information page on Ministry of State Administration site (in Portuguese)
• Joanna Barrkman (2021). "Digital return of an ethnographic museum collection and value creation by an originating community in Baguia, Timor-Leste". In Howard Morphy; Robyn McKenzie (eds.). Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003139324-14. ISBN 9781000515541.