Sacato, sometimes spelled Sakato ( pt, Sacato, tet, Sakato), is a village in
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-west ...
. It is located in the ''
suco'' of Nipane within the
Pante Macassar Administrative Post in the
Oecusse
Oecusse (also variously ''Oecussi'', ''Ocussi'', ''Oekussi'', ''Oekusi'', ''Okusi'', ''Oé-Cusse''), also known as Oecusse-Ambeno (; ) and formerly just Ambeno, officially the Special Administrative Region Oecusse-Ambeno (), is an exclave, mun ...
Special Administrative Region. It also the main border crossing between the East Timorese
exclave of Oecusse and
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
.
Geography
Sacato is located on the Oecusse coastline which is on the northern coast of
Timor
Timor is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, in the north of the Timor Sea. The island is divided between the sovereign states of East Timor on the eastern part and Indonesia on the western part. The Indonesian part, also ...
island. It is located to the west of the Noel Meto river which forms the
East Timor-Indonesia border
East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth.
Etymology
As in other languages, the word is formed from the f ...
. The mountains of Oecusse rise up behind Sacato.
Transportation
The village is served by the main road from
Pante Macassar
Pante Macassar ( pt, Pante Macassar, ) is a city in the Pante Macassar administrative post on the north coast of East Timor, to the west of Dili, the nation's capital. It has a population of 4,730 (Stand 2006). It is the capital of the Oec ...
, the capital of Oecusse which is located 15 km to the east. From Sacato, the distance to the main part of East Timor via the Mota'ain/Batugade border crossing is about 75 km along the northern coastal road which traverses
North Central Timor Regency
North Central Timor Regency ( id, Kabupaten Timor Tengah Utara) is a regency in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. It covers an area of 2,669.70 km2, and had a population of 229,803 at the 2010 Census and 259,829 at the 2020 Census; the off ...
and
Belu Regency
Belu Regency is a regency in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. Established on 20 December 1958, Belu Regency has its seat (capital) in the large town of Atambua.
In December 2012 a separate Regency - Malaka Regency - was created from t ...
of
Nusa Tenggara Timur
East Nusa Tenggara ( id, Nusa Tenggara Timur – NTT; pt, Sonda Oriental) is the southernmost province of Indonesia. It comprises the eastern portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands, facing the Indian Ocean in the south and the Flores Sea in the ...
, Indonesia.
Border crossing checkpoint
The Sacato integrated frontier checkpoint (Portuguese: ''Posto Fronteirico Integrado'') is located 15 km east of Pante Makassar and just west of the bridge over the Noel Meto which forms the East Timor-Indonesia border. The checkpoint on the Indonesia side is called the
Wini border crossing checkpoint.
The checkpoint was newly built to cater to immigration, customs, quarantine and security procedures after East Timor became independent. The facility was opened by Vice Prime Minister Jose Luis Guterres on 28 June 2012.
The border crossing is the main one for Oecusse as it is located on the shortest route between Oecusse and the main border crossing into the main part of East Timor at
Mota'ain
Mota'ain, also spelled Motain, Mota'in or Mota Ain, is a hamlet in the Silawan village ('' desa''), East Tasifeto district (''kecamatan''), Belu Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
A major border crossing checkpoint with customs, immigration ...
/
Batugade
Batugade is a suco (village) located in Balibó Subdistrict, Bobonaro Municipality of East Timor. The administrative seat of the suco is the village of Batugade.
Batugade is located on the main road between Dili and Kupang, the capital of Nusa Te ...
.
External links
* Timor-Leste Immigration Departmen
Gallery
File:Berge bei Sacato, Nipane.jpg, Mountains behind Sacato.
File:Entry to Indonesia from the Oecusse, Timor-Leste side.jpg, Old arch on the Sacato side of the border in 2009 before the new checkpoint was built.
References
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Populated places in Oecusse
East Timor–Indonesia border crossings