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Sungguminasa
Sungguminasa is a town and Gowa Regency's administrative capital in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia.Balla Lompoa Museum
Museum Indonesia It is home to the Balla' Lompoa Museum, a reconstruction of the royal palace. The building is constructed on stilts and made of .


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Sultanate Of Gowa
The Sultanate of Gowa (sometimes written as ''Goa''; not to be confused with Goa in India) was one of the great kingdoms in the history of Indonesia and the most successful kingdom in the South Sulawesi region. People of this kingdom come from the Makassar tribe who lived in the south end and the west coast of southern Sulawesi. History Before the establishment of the kingdom, the region had been known as ''Makassar'' and its people as ''Suku Makassar'' ( tribe of Makassar). The history of the kingdom can be divided into two eras: pre-Islamic kingdom and post-Islamic sultanate. Pre-Islamic Kingdom According to the epic poem The Nagarakretagama, in praise of King Rajasanagara of Majapahit, it lists Makassar as one of the kingdom's tributaries in 1365. The first queen of Gowa was ''Tomanurung Baine''. There is not much known about the exact time when the kingdom was established nor about the first queen, and only during the ruling of the 6th king, ''Tonatangka Kopi'', local ...
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Gowa Regency
Gowa (''Makassar language : '') is a regency in the province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It has an area of 1,883.33 km2 and a population of 652,329 at the 2010 census, increasing to 765,836 at the 2020 census; the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 773,315. The majority of the regency (the western eleven districts, with 617,277 inhabitants, or 79.8% of the regency's population in 2021) lies within the official metropolitan area of the city of Makassar, including the regency's administrative capital at Sungguminasa. The hill resort of Malino is within the eastern (non-metropolitan) part of the regency. History See Early history of Gowa and Talloq and the Sultanate of Gowa Geography Gowa is located at 12°38.16'E Longitude of Jakarta and 5°33.6'E longitude of the North Pole. While the location of the region his administration between, 12°33.19 'to 13°15:17'E longitude and 5°5' to 5°34.7'S latitude of Jakarta. The regency is located in the southern part of South Sulaw ...
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South Sulawesi Province
South Sulawesi ( id, Sulawesi Selatan) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province in the South Peninsula, Sulawesi, southern peninsula of Sulawesi. The Selayar Islands archipelago to the south of Sulawesi is also part of the province. The capital is Makassar. The province is bordered by Central Sulawesi and West Sulawesi to the north, the Gulf of Bone and Southeast Sulawesi to the east, Makassar Strait to the west, and Flores Sea to the south. The 2010 census estimated the population as 8,032,551 which makes South Sulawesi the most populous province on the island (46% of the population of Sulawesi is in South Sulawesi), and the sixth most populous province in Indonesia. At the 2020 Census this had risen to 9,073,509,Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. and the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 9,139,531. The main ethnic groups in South Sulawesi are the Bugis people, Buginese, Makassarese people, Makassarese, Toraja, and Mandar people, Mandar. The economy of the province is based on ...
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Ironwood
Ironwood is a common name for many woods or plants that have a reputation for hardness, or specifically a wood density that is heavier than water (approximately 1000 kg/m3, or 62 pounds per cubic foot), although usage of the name ironwood in English may or may not indicate a tree that yields such heavy wood. Some of the species with their common name * ''Acacia aulacocarpa'' (Brush ironwood) * ''Acacia estrophiolata'' (Southern ironwood), central Australia * ''Acacia excelsa'' (Ironwood) * '' Acacia melanoxylon'' (Ironwood) * ''Acacia stenophylla'' (Ironwood), Australia * ''Aegiphila martinicensis'' (Ironwood) * ''Afzelia africana'' (Ironwood) * ''Androstachys johnsonii'' (Lebombo ironwood), southeastern Africa and Madagascar * ''Allagoptera caudescens'', ''Borassus flabellifer'', '' Caryota urens'', ''Iriartea deltoidea'' Black Palm, Palmira wood (Black ironwood) * ''Argania spinosa'' (Morocco ironwood, Thorny, Prickly ironwood) * ''Astronium fraxinifolium'', ''Astronium ...
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Tropical Monsoon Climate
An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category ''Am''. Tropical monsoon climates have monthly mean temperatures above in every month of the year and a dry season. The tropical monsoon climate is the intermediate climate between the wet Af (or tropical rainforest climate) and the drier Aw (or tropical savanna climate). A tropical monsoon climate's driest month has on average less than 60 mm, but more than 100-\left(\frac\right). This is in direct contrast to a tropical savanna climate, whose driest month has less than 60 mm of precipitation and also less than 100-\left(\frac\right) of average monthly precipitation. In essence, a tropical monsoon climate tends to either have more rainfall than a tropical savanna climate or have less pronounced dry seasons. A tropical monsoon c ...
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