Baucau Administrative Post

This article is about the administrative post. For the city, see Baucau. For the municipality, see Baucau Municipality. For other uses, see Baucau (disambiguation).
Baucau
Administrative Post
  • Posto Administrativo de Baucau (Portuguese)
  • Postu administrativu Baukau (Tetum)
Rice fields in Caibada with Mount Matebian in the background
Rice fields in Caibada with Mount Matebian in the background
Official map of the Administrative post
Official map
Baucau is located in East Timor
Baucau
Baucau
Coordinates: 8°28′S 126°27′E / 8.467°S 126.450°E / -8.467; 126.450
Country East Timor
MunicipalityBaucau
SeatBahu [de]
Sucos
Area
 • Total369.6 km2 (142.7 sq mi)
Population
 (2015 census)
 • Total47,294
 • Density130/km2 (330/sq mi)
Households (2015 census)
 • Total8,060
Time zoneUTC+09:00 (TLT)

Baucau, officially Baucau Administrative Post (Portuguese: Posto Administrativo de Baucau, Tetum: Postu administrativu Baukau), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in Baucau municipality, East Timor.[1][2] Its seat or administrative centre is Bahú [de].[2]

  1. ^ "Subdistricts of Timor-Leste". www.statoids.com. 4 May 2010. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  2. ^ a b "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.