Viqueque Municipality
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| Country | File:Flag of East Timor.svg Timor-Leste |
| Capital | Viqueque |
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| • Rank | 1st |
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| • Rank | 5th |
| • Rank | 10th |
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| • Rank | 5th |
| Time zone | UTC+09:00 (TLT) |
| ISO 3166 code | TL-VI |
| HDI (2017) | 0.602[1] medium · 9th |
| Website | Viqueque Municipality |
Viqueque (Portuguese: Município Viqueque, Tetum: Munisípiu Vikeke) is the largest of the municipalities (formerly districts) of Timor-Leste. It has a population of 77,402 (Census 2010) and an area of 1,877 km2.[2] The capital of the municipality is also named Viqueque.
Toponymy
[edit | edit source]Viqueque is a Portuguese approximation of the local Tetun-Terik word Vikeke (or Wekeke), which has been translated as both 'eroding water'[3] and 'water' (we) 'bracelet' (keke).[4]
The background to the latter translation is that a warrior leader, Luka, is said once to have been on a campaign with his warriors against the Wehali people, who had entered Luka's lands via Suai, Same, and Manatuto. During the campaign, he and the warriors came upon a spring guarded by an old woman. After the woman had given the warriors the water they had asked for, they cut off her arm, on which she had been wearing a bracelet. They then took the arm and bracelet to their king, Nai Lu Leki, who hung the arm in a tree. He also kept the bracelet and declared it sacred, as We Keke.[5]
According to another tradition, a queen of the kingdom of Luka gave a bracelet to Viqueque as an heirloom, and today the municipality is named after it.[6]
Geography
[edit | edit source]Viqueque is on the south coast of Timor, on the Timor Sea. It borders the municipalities of Baucau to the north, Lautém to the east, and Manatuto to the west. The borders of the then district were the same in colonial times.
On the south coast, the people report both myths and possible occurrences of crocodiles.
History
[edit | edit source]According to a list prepared by Afonso de Castro, governor of the colony of Portuguese Timor from 1859 to 1863, Viqueque was one of 47 kingdoms in that colony at the time.[7]
Administrative posts
[edit | edit source]The municipality's administrative posts (formerly sub-districts) are:[8]
- Lacluta[9]
- Ossu
- Uato-Lari (which was known in Portuguese Timor as Leça, and, in Tetum, is spelled Watulari)
- Uatucarbau (spelled Watucarbau, in Tetum)
- Viqueque
The administrative posts are divided into 35 sucos ("villages") in total.
Demographics
[edit | edit source]Viqueque is a homeland of the Malayo-Polynesian language Tetum. In Timor-Leste it is co-official with Portuguese. In the east part of the municipality live speakers of the Papuan language Makasae.
References
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External links
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- Viqueque Municipality – official site (in Tetum with some content in English)
- Viqueque Municipality – information page on Ministry of State Administration site (in Portuguese and Tetum)
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