Sacato, sometimes spelled Sakato ( pt, Sacato, tet, Sakato), is a village in East Timor. It is located in the ''

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'' of Nipane within the

Pante Macassar Administrative Post Pante Macassar, officially Pante Macassar Administrative Post (, ), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in the Oecusse municipality and Special Administrative Region (SAR) of East Timor. Its seat or administrative cent ...

in the Oecusse Special Administrative Region. It also the main border crossing between the East Timorese

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of Oecusse and Indonesia.

Geography

Sacato is located on the Oecusse coastline which is on the northern coast of Timor island. It is located to the west of the Noel Meto river which forms the East Timor-Indonesia border. The mountains of Oecusse rise up behind Sacato.

Transportation

The village is served by the main road from Pante Macassar, 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 and Belu Regency of Nusa Tenggara Timur, 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/ Batugade.

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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