Salele 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 ...
located in the
suco of Lalawa in the
Tilomar Administrative Post (formerly called subdistrict) of the
Cova Lima Municipality
Cova Lima (, ) is a municipality of East Timor, in the Southwest part of the country. It has a population of 59,455 (Census 2010) and an area of 1,230 km2. The capital of the municipality is Suai, which lies 136 km from Dili, the ...
. It is the location of the second main border crossing between the East Timor and
Indonesia
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. The checkpoint on the Indonesian side of the border is called the Motamasin checkpoint.
Geography
Salele is located on the southern coastline 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, at the southwesternmost corner of East Timor. It is located just east of the Mota Masin River which forms the
East Timor-Indonesia border
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Etymology
As in other languages, the word is formed from the f ...
.
Transportation
The village is served by the main road linking
Suai, 25 km to the east, with the town of
Betun, the capital of
Malaka Regency which is located 30 km to the west across the border in Indonesia.
Border crossing
The Salele integrated frontier checkpoint is located just east of the Motamasin River which forms the East Timor-Indonesia border. The checkpoint on the Indonesia side is the
Motamasin border crossing checkpoint.
The checkpoint was newly built to cater to cross border traffic after East Timor became independent and opened by Vice Prime Minister Jose Luis Guterres on 26 June 2012.
This is the main border crossing for the southern coast of East Timor, linking
Suai city with the West Timor cities of
Betun and Besikama.
External links
* Immigration Department of East Timo
website
References
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Populated places in East Timor
Cova Lima Municipality
East Timor–Indonesia border crossings