Atabae, officially Atabae Administrative Post (, ), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in

Bobonaro municipality Bobonaro ( pt, Município Bobonaro, , or ) is a municipality (and was formerly a district) in the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste commonly known as East Timor. It is the second-most western municipality on the east half of the island. It ...

East Timor East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-weste ...

. Its seat or

administrative centre An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...

is , which is sometimes wrongly named ''Atabae'', too. Its population at the 2010 census was 10,976. The real village of

Atabae Atabae is a village in the suco of Rairobo ( subdistrict Atabae, Bobonaro District, East Timor East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. ...

is in the ''

suco The administrative posts (former subdistricts) of East Timor are subdivided into 442 ''sucos'' ("villages") and 2,336 ''aldeias'' ("communities").http://www.unmiset.org/legal/RDTL-Law/RDTL-Minist-Orders/Decree-Order-2003-6.pdf List of sucos by ...

'' of Rairobo.

References

External links

* – information page on Ministry of State Administration site Administrative posts of East Timor Bobonaro Municipality {{EastTimor-geo-stub